By Alex Anteau | March 21, 2024
"When you get to a point where everybody's a little bit upset, maybe you've finally found a bill that can get past both chambers and get signed by the governor," said Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, when he introduced the bill this legislative session.
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By John Bonnie and Steve Rapp | March 20, 2024
The Georgia direct-action statutes still provide a narrow exception to the otherwise strident rule that direct actions by a claimant against an allegedly liable insured cannot be maintained until there is a judgment against the insured, and Georgia, therefore, remains in a reported minority of just four states allowing direct actions in any context.
By Cedra Mayfield | March 8, 2024
The plaintiff is 82 years old.
By Cedra Mayfield | March 7, 2024
"This verdict brings us closer, but we're not done yet," said prevailing plaintiff counsel James Hugh Potts II of JHPII in Atlanta.
By Alex Anteau | February 26, 2024
Raising the stakes, counsel for the excess insurance carrier was hired to sit on the trial where tensions were running high.
By Alex Anteau | February 22, 2024
"It's the perfect example of a case where you shouldn't take the police report at face value," said Darl Champion of the Champion Firm, who litigated the case with co-counsel Adrienne McKay.
By Alex Anteau | February 21, 2024
"Litigation strategy can be much debated among lawyers," Leonard's attorneys, former Supreme Court Justice Keith Blackwell, Steven Collins and Meredith Kingsley of Alston & Bird, wrote in their appellee brief. "That leaves even seasoned litigators open to second-guessing, especially when their decisions are viewed in hindsight after an adverse ruling."
By Alex Anteau | February 16, 2024
Presiding Judge Christopher McFadden, in a dispute between a car dealership and insurer, expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of case law.
By Amanda O'Brien | February 7, 2024
"I don't want to sound pessimistic, but the time of the smaller insurance defense shop is probably going away," said Weber Gallagher chairman Andrew Indeck.
Daily Report Online | Infographic
By Alex Anteau | February 6, 2024
"I wish I could tell you it's a bill that, when I bring it up here, everybody's gonna sing 'Kumbaya' and tell you that it's great. They're not," Georgia Sen. Blake Tillery, R-Vidalia, said.
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