Warren S. Griffin v. Continental American Life Insurance Company

Warren S. Griffin, the plaintiff, filed this diversity action in the Northern District of Georgia seeking to enforce his perfected security interest in all insurance commissions owed to Norman Greenberg, an employee of defendant Continental American Life Insurance Company. The defendant insurance company answered that Green-berg also owed it money, and that its contractual right of set-off had priority over Griffin’s perfected security interest in the commissions. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Griffin, concluding that under Georgia law a perfected security interest…