The state Court of Appeals has ruled that the city of Atlanta and a group of construction companies may be on the hook for $4.47 million in a wrongful death case-simply based on their failure to force another company found liable at trial to procure adequate insurance coverage.
The Oct. 5 decision was the result of a creative attempt by plaintiffs’ lawyers to collect on a $5.47 million verdict awarded by a DeKalb County jury in 2009. That suit was won for the children of Mack Pitts, who died from injuries he suffered working on a construction project at Atlanta’s airport.
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