By Alex Anteau | May 2, 2024
Defendant-appellant counsel Matt Friedlander said waiving the Civil Practice Statute was "a legally inert proclamation … like Michael Scott standing up and saying 'I declare bankruptcy.' It's funny, but it doesn't mean anything."
By Alex Anteau | May 1, 2024
"I don't know that we really should care about policy," said Presiding Judge Stephen Dillard. "It's only what the statute says, and you may be right on that, you may not be right on that, but that's what I'm not getting."
By Alex Anteau | April 30, 2024
According to the defendant-appellants, the plaintiff's demand was emblematic of a "set-up" offer by which an "attorney could … try to avoid a policy-limits settlement by sending a needlessly complicated demand with a myriad of confusing and seemingly trivial terms designed to elicit a rejection."
By Alex Anteau | April 4, 2024
"I think that she should definitely be able to recover more than the amount of the judgment," said attorney Buck Rogers.
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.
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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 Alex Anteau | March 13, 2024
"There isn't a businessperson in the state that's not going to not lose the duty to defend because within [the new criteria," the defendant-appellee attorney said. "They can either have the financial wherewithal or can borrow it. ... It reaches so much further than it needed to go."
By Cedra Mayfield | March 8, 2024
The plaintiff is 82 years old.
By Trudy Knockless | March 6, 2024
The nation's No. 2 auto insurer has new legal team leadership for the first time since 2013.
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.
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