Yes, a life-care plan can come into evidence in a Georgia injury trial, but only if it clears the standards that govern expert testimony. Admissibility is not automatic; the plan...
Traditional uninsured motorist coverage, often labeled "reduced-by" coverage, treats the at-fault driver's liability payment as a credit against the insured's UM limit rather than as money added to it. The...
The bad-faith penalty in O.C.G.A. § 33-4-6 is built around the relationship between an insurer and its own policyholder, so an injured person who is not insured by the at-fault...
A normal CT or MRI does not automatically defeat a Georgia brain-injury claim. Many serious brain injuries, particularly mild traumatic brain injuries and diffuse axonal damage, do not show up...
Whether a Georgia UM insurer gets to subtract the at-fault driver's payment, and how much it can subtract, depends entirely on which form of uninsured motorist coverage the insured carries....
Generally no. In Georgia, a company that merely puts its own name or brand on a product built by someone else is treated as a product seller, not the manufacturer,...
Yes. Georgia's first-party bad-faith statute allows a policyholder to recover reasonable attorney fees, in addition to the covered loss and the bad-faith penalty, when an insurer's refusal to pay is...
Before a first-party bad-faith claim against a Georgia insurer can proceed, the policyholder must make a demand and give the insurer 60 days to pay the covered loss. O.C.G.A. §...
Georgia generally allows an insured to combine the uninsured motorist limits carried on more than one vehicle, a practice known as stacking. When a household insures several cars, the UM...
When an injury ends a person's ability to work for good, Georgia measures the loss as the value of the earning capacity that has been taken away, projected across the...