Martin v. Georgia Department of Public Safety

How courts have described this case

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• holding that self-insurance program covering employees waived the sovereign immunity of the Department of Public Safety in spite of language contained in OCGA § 45-9-5
• holding that self-insurance program covering employees waived the sovereign immunity of the Department of Public Safety in spite of language contained in OCGA § 45-9-5
• under Georgia 1983 Constitution, creation of DOAS liability trust fund waived state sovereign immunity to the extent of coverage for insured employees sued in state court
• the Georgia Constitution’s sovereign immunity extends “to preserve the protection of the public purse.... ”
• under Georgia 1983 Constitution, creation of DOAS liability trust fund waived state sovereign immunity to the extent of coverage for insured employees sued in state court
• If a state establishes a self-insurance fund, the state waives sovereign immunity and the self-insurance fund stands on the same footing as proceeds available from a policy issued by a private carrier.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).