'Assumed Risk' Bars Construction Death Suit, Ga. Panel Says

By Chart Riggall ( January 27, 2026, 7:09 PM EST) -- A Georgia Court of Appeals panel backed early wins Tuesday for SK Battery America Inc. and its contractors on a Peach State battery plant in a suit over a construction worker's fatal fall on the job, holding that the worker "assumed the risk of his injuries" by not tying himself to a safety line....

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