A federal judge has put a freeze on an insurers’ effort to dodge liability for a $30.4 million verdict until the Georgia Supreme Court rules whether the award—vacated earlier this year by the Court of Appeals—will even survive.
American Family Life Insurance had asked that the case be allowed to proceed, but Judge Richard Story of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ruled that allowing discovery to proceed when the specter of a new trial hangs over the proceedings would be “impermissibly prejudicial to the parties involved, not to mention the judge trying the case.”
