A frequent strategy in commercial litigation involves an insured defendant assigning its failure-to-procure or bad-faith claims against its insurance broker or carrier to an injured plaintiff in exchange for a covenant not to execute on a judgment. However, under Georgia law, the assignability of such claims hinges heavily on a critical statutory distinction: is the claim a property tort (which is assignable) or a personal tort (which is not)? In a fresh decision, Plummer v.

The Expanding Frontiers of the GRCA: Georgia Court of Appeals Upholds Five-Year Non-Compete and Out-of-State Affiliate Enforcement

In Monroe v. Mayfield Self Me-064 Storage , the Court of Appeals recently tackled two key procedural issues: (1) the proper method for...

The Court of Appeals of Georgia has stated – for the first time – a definition of collusion in the context of vanishing venue. Proof of...

The Court of Appeals has overturned decades of precedent on the question of the standard for self-contradictory testimony in Pollard v....