An attorney for a security alarm monitoring company told appeals court judges that basic contract law required them to toss a $9 million verdict for a customer who was raped by an attacker who’d broken into her home.
At stake is nothing less than “the paramount public policy of this statethe freedom to contract,” Laurie Webb Daniel of Holland & Knight told a two-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Representing Monitronics International Inc., Daniel pointed to a contract the plaintiff signed that said the alarm company was not guaranteeing her safety. The document also limited the monitoring service’s liability in the event of damages to $250, Daniel noted.
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