As one of two lawyers with Sandy Springs, Georgia, personal injury boutique Ashendon & Associates, Gary Powell and founding partner Tom Ashenden were gearing up for pushback, but resolution came with surprising ease.
Geico insurance argued that it was blindsided by a $2.9 million default judgment in a case it didn't know about, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit—after asking the Supreme Court of Georgia for guidance—affirmed the award.
Plaintiffs attorney Bethany Schneider said the defendant driver's insurer, Liberty Mutual, finally agreed to tender its policy limits of $250,000 only as trial approached. But when she demanded six times that, given a yearslong wait, the insurer agreed.
In a case involving three people killed by a fleeing car thief, the plaintiffs asked the Georgia Supreme Court to affirm lower court rulings that College Park's purchase of $5 million in liability insurance stripped it of sovereign immunity in cases where there were claims of greater than $700,000.
Pulte Homes sued 18 insurance companies for subcontractors that worked on the Aldredge Brookhaven project in an effort to recoup over $15 million it claims to have spent fixing allegedly shoddy construction work.
U.S. District Judge Michael Brown said the insurer's response to a woman's demand letter laying down conditions for paying the claim constituted a "counteroffer," creating a jury issue of whether the carrier acted in bad faith.
Beck was accused of a five-year scheme that siphoned more than $2 million from the Georgia Underwriting Association, where he served as general manager before elected insurance commissioner in 2018.
After an appeals court dumped a $30 million verdict, the case settled for $11 million before a new trial. A new lawsuit says AmFam, a private investigation company and two former Baker Donelson lawyers illegally surveilled the plaintiff and her family, and seeks billions of dollars in punitive damages.
The named plaintiff in the putative class action is a widow whose husband paid more than $14,600 in cumulative premiums for a policy that only paid $5,000 upon his death.
After paying $1.7 million to settle claims that a Stockbridge city councilman targeted a barbeque spot in retaliation for refusing to comp his $60 tab, the city's insurer said it accidentally paid the chef an extra $1 million. It wants its money back.
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