Geico Indemnity Company v. Whiteside

In the Supreme Court of Georgia Decided: April 19, 2021 S21Q0227. GEICO INDEMNITY CO. v. WHITESIDE. ELLINGTON, Justice. The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit certified to this Court three questions of Georgia law relating to a lawsuit brought in federal district court by Fife Whiteside, the trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Bonnie Winslett. See Whiteside v. GEICO Indem. Co.,

977 F3d 1014, 1022

(11th Cir. 2020). Whiteside sued GEICO to recover the value of Winslett’s failure-to- settle tort claim against GEICO so that the bankruptcy estate could pay creditor Terry…