Recent Court of Appeals decision highlights the specific requirements of Georgia’s ante litem notice statute
9/10/21
By: Amy B. Cowan In recent years, the Georgia Court of Appeals has consistently held that Georgia’s municipal ante litem notice statute requires that any notice of claim served upon a city must contain the specific amount of monetary damages sought stated as an offer of compromise which the city can accept. The Court’s most recent decision is no…
Settle at Your Own Risk
2/16/16
By: Dana Maine and Kevin Stone The Georgia Court of Appeals issued an opinion last week in Jim Tidwell Ford v. Bashuk, A15A2030 applying the rule that settlement of an underlying suit may sever causation in a subsequent legal malpractice action. The underlying suit in Bashuk, brought in federal court, involved a claim by a…