In City of Atlanta v. McCrary, 760 S.E.2d 696 (2014) Plaintiffs alleged, among other claims, that the City of Atlanta maintained a nuisance by failing to enforce its own high speed pursuit policy after a high speed chase resulted in a deadly collision. In reversing the trial court, the Court of Appeals seemed skeptical that […]
The Court of Appeals recognized how the traditionally ministerial act of vehicle maintenance can become discretionary when the maintenance act at issue is neither standard nor routine. In City of Milledgeville v. Primus, 325 Ga. App. 553, 753 S.E.2d 146 (2013), Lucricious Primus was injured when the brake line burst in the bus he was […]
Under the doctrine of respondeat superior in Georgia, an employer is liable for injuries to another proximately resulting from the acts of an employee committed within the scope of his or her employment. O.C.G.A. § 51-2-2. Typically speaking, Georgia law does not consider an employee’s commute within the scope of employment for the purposes of […]