Visitor who injured her ankle when she stepped in an unrepaired pothole in college campus parking lot brought negligence action against the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, based on allegedly unsafe condition of parking lot. The Superior Court granted Board’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, based on plaintiff’s failure to provide sufficient ante litem notice to the Board. Plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeals reversed. Board appealed.
The Supreme Court of Georgia held that notice did not comply with ante litem provisions.
Ante litem notice did not sufficiently identify the “amount of loss claimed” so as to comply with ante litem notice statute, as required for recovery, where visitor did not include any dollar amount of claimed loss, even though extent of her knowledge and belief at time of notice included, at a minimum, medical expenses she had incurred thus far.