County insurance won’t cover stolen dozier

Unless the county attorney can work some legal magic, Barrow County’s taxpayers will absorb the $74,837 loss of a rented bulldozer stolen last month from a county work site.

The county’s insurance carrier, Travelers Insurance, notified the Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 10 that the county’s policy does not cover the loss of the John Deere 450J bulldozer leased in late October from United Rentals of Bogart and stolen around Dec. 12-13.

Because the theft occurred at the end of the rental period, the county crew didn’t realize the dozer had been stolen until Dec. 14, when a rental company employee came to pick it up from the job site near the intersection of Highway 81 and Hoyt King Road.

For the full story, see the Jan. 25 print or e-edition of the Barrow Journal.