The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled the issuer of a surety bond is not responsible for a $150,000 punitive damages award a probate court levied against it and the conservator of an incapacitated woman after the judge determined the conservator had looted the funds.

The finding overturns a Georgia Court of Appeals ruling that left Ohio Casualty Co., which served as the surety for the conservator, on the hook not only for $167,000 in misappropriated funds, but jointly and severally liable for $150,000 in punitive damages as well.

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