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City hires attorney to fight for insurance in Gatto suit
Local judge dismisses some claims, but insurer wants out
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Michael J. Gatto
This week, the city of Statesboro acted to hire an attorney, at a cost of up to $125,000, for an effort to keep an insurance company’s coverage in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the parents of the late Michael J. Gatto. Gatto, 18, an incoming Georgia Southern University freshman from Cumming, died Aug. 28, 2014, of a fractured skull and other injuries. He had been punched unconscious at a Statesboro nightclub called Rude Rudy’s by Grant James Spencer, then 20, a bouncer and fellow GS student.
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