BIG CANOE POA – gets Sued – Again!

Big Canoe POA just got hit today (June 9, 2026) with a new 12 Page Lawsuit!

A visiting Golfer was severely injured on the course when his cart rolled over on a stretch of path that was allegedly known to be unsafe.  Here is the damning section:

Defendant had explicit prior notice of repeated rollover incidents at the same cart path location behind Hole #1, as confirmed by firefighter, developer, and cart-barn staff. Despite knowledge of the dangerous conditions and prior incidents, Defendant failed to implement any safety measures, including guardrails, warning signs, speed bumps, non-slip surfacing, or path closure protocols during rain.

FOBC Observation… if this is true, then the fact that they have spent almost $6 MILLION dollars on non-essential Golf upgrades (redesigning greens, sand traps and other aesthetics), while ignoring a well known safety hazard – won’t play out well with a potential jury.

Reading the complaint, it sounds like this fellow has had it rather rough, and suffered substantial injuries, and FOBC’s thoughts and best wishes go out to him.

One of the more disturbing boilerplate claims was:

Plaintiff is entitled to recover punitive damages from the Defendant pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 51-12-5.1 as Defendant’s (the POA) negligence and actions “show willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression, or that entire want of care which would raise the presumption of conscious indifference to consequence.”

He’s demanding a jury trial, with punitive damages, and it sounds like he’s got a good case if his facts are all in order.

$$$ KaChing!  More financial and reputational woes for Big Canoe.

Hopefully Big Canoe Property Owners will be able to watch this one all the way through, and see the filed details of any claims – unlike the multiple other lawsuits that are quietly settled behind the scenes – and the payments accounted for who knows where ???

If Property Owners are to keep funding litigation payouts stemming from the actions of our Board and Paid Employees – don’t we deserve to know what the facts are leading to those settlements?  And how much we are paying?  And in what column of the accounting books it is located?

Perhaps a good question to ask at the next Board Meeting… when you tally up actual Litigation Settlements, Employee Settlements & Non-Disclosure Payments (aka Hush Money!) +  Injury Claims…

Exactly How Much Does This Add Up To Over the Past 3 Years?
…and where is it all Hidden in the Accounting Records?