Ayers v. Public School Employees Retirement System of Georgia

Nahmias, Justice.

The Public School Employees Retirement System of Georgia (PSERS) filed suit against Appellant Leroy Ayers to recover three months of benefit payments to his mother, Esther Ayers, that PSERS mistakenly made after Mrs. Ayers had died. Appellant answered and counterclaimed, and a jury ultimately returned a $5,000 verdict in favor of Appellant. PSERS appealed, and the Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the trial court erred in denying PSERS’s motion for a directed verdict. See Public School Employees Retirement System of Ga. v. Ayers, 319 Ga. App. 234 (734 SE2d 461) (2012).…