A 2022 statute closed the door to joint and several liability in single-defendant personal injury cases, undoing a drafting error in Georgia’s 2005 tort reform package. However, trial courts are still figuring out what plaintiffs who filed in the interim are able to recover.
Atlanta-based personal injury attorneys Mike Rafi and Alex Brown from the Rafi Law Firm recently leveraged a court’s order for rebuttable presumption sanctions and a deposition where a defendant inadvertently testified against themself to secure the full amount of an apartment complex insurer’s $6 million policy limit in a premises-liability case.
