Jones v. Phillips

PRESENT: All the Justices ANDREA GAIL JONES OPINION BY v. Record No. 190643 JUSTICE D. ARTHUR KELSEY DECEMBER 3, 2020 TERRY M. PHILLIPS, ET AL. FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF POWHATAN COUNTY Paul W. Cella, Judge In this appeal, we address two questions of first impression in Virginia. The first is whether an insurer’s payments on a fire insurance policy were immune from garnishment as “proceeds of the sale or disposition” of property held in trust under former Code § 55-20.2(C), recently recodified as Code § 55.1-136(C). 1 The second is whether the contractual right under the insurance policy to…