A family is suing Glynn County after a man was fatally shot by a police officer in the county. The family is claiming that the officer and  police chief violated the mentally ill man’s rights.

The man was legally drunk and taking medication for bipolar disorder that should not be mixed with alcohol and was angry with police at the time. The police officer shot the man to death at his home in September 2009.

Officers saw the man had weapons and he made multiple threats that he was going to kill the police officers.  The confrontation started over an illegal yard sign. The family of the man has filed the suit that claims that the police officers used “excessive force” which lead to the man’s wrongful death.

Our condolences are with the friends and family of the man during this difficult time.

The owner of a Georgia nursing home has recently had a wrongful death suit filed against him by a family whose family member died allegedly of nursing home abuse.

The complaint was brought by a daughter whose father died after suffering a number of falls and fractures at the nursing home in 2007. The suit states that the family was not notified when the falls occurred and that her father died of malnutrition and dehydration.

It is an obligation of a nursing home to do their best to lessen the risk of nursing home residents falling because residents at a nursing home are more prone to fall. The nursing home that is involved in the suit has since been shut down after inspectors found a host of problems.

The Georgia Department of Transportation has settled a wrongful death case with the family of a woman who was killed after a taxi cab drove off the side of the road and struck a tree.

The Georgia DOT will pay $600,000 to the family of the woman and also expressed their apologies to the children and husband of the woman. The accident occurred in 2003 as the woman was picked up by a cab at the airport and was on her way to a business trip when the cab driver lost control on the slick roadway. The woman was killed instantly.

The lawsuit claimed that the tree that the cab struck was put to close to the roadway and that the Georgia DOT was negligent when designing that area of the highway. The suit was put off for many years and finally went to trial when the lawsuit added that the section of the intersection was too steep and had a bad drainage system. DOT is planning to cut down more trees by the interstate as well.