The family of a 29-year-old man killed on I-85 in DeKalb County has settled its lawsuit against the Doraville rehabilitation center that kicked the man out.
DeKalb jurors blamed Metro Atlanta Recovery Residences, or MARR, and several of its staff for the death of Nicholas Carusillo, awarding his family just over $77.5 million at trial in August 2022.
Now the parties have settled the case, according to an order issued Tuesday by the Georgia Court of Appeals. MARR had sought the appellate court’s review in May 2024 after the trial judge denied its attempts to scrap or reduce the judgment…