SCENARIO: $100,000 billed to Plaintiff for a surgery center “facility fee” where the provider accepts $10,000 for full payment. QUESTION: In seeking recovery for this medical bill, what amount should Plaintiff be able to “blackboard” to a jury? The inflated, billed amount ($100,000) that Plaintiff didn’t pay and isn’t responsible …
The 2021 Georgia legislative session ended March 31 without the General Assembly passing HB 200, which would have amended Title 40 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to motor vehicles and traffic to, among other changes, provide for the failure to wear a safety belt or safety restraints …
The Georgia Supreme Court just gave defendants in Georgia a big victory as related to rulings on Default for untimely answer. The former rule put a very heavy burden on the defendant which was quite difficult to overcome. The new rule makes the burden much less onerous, thereby affording a defendant a …
In Linthicum v. Mendakota Ins. Co., the 11th Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to an insurer in the bad-faith, failure to settle context confirming that “[a]n insurer is not liable for failing to respond to a time-sensitive offer to settle for policy limits when the offer does not …
Over 100 years ago, Henry Ford’s assembly line made cars available to the masses, making horse drawn carriages a thing of the past. But Ford’s innovation didn’t prevent cars from rear-ending each other for the next century. But soon, rear-end collisions will be another relic of the past. How? The …
The Georgia Court of Appeals recently reversed a trial court’s denial of a purported insurer’s motion to dismiss a declaratory action brought by a plaintiff in an ongoing underlying case against the insurer’s purported insured. The Court of Appeals noted that “[a]s a general rule, a plaintiff does not hav[e] …