A Fulton County jury delivered a post-apportioned award of $228,000 to a woman who broke her ankle outside the Georgia Dome as she was about to attend her first professional football game.
The jury cleared the Georgia World Congress Center Authority of any liability but found the company handling game-day security liable for what was originally a $400,000 verdict. The award was reduced after the panel decided plaintiff Alicia Jarvis bore 43 percent of the liability for the accident, mainly because there was testimony that she had been drinking before falling as she crossed a pine straw berm outside the stadium, according to lawyers on both sides of the case.
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