Arp v. Payne

I concur in the holding reached by the majority in this case. I write separately, however, to express my disagreement with the contention found in footnote 2 of the majority opinion that in order to avoid potential prejudice the better approach to jury qualification in cases like this would be not to qualify prospective jurors regarding any relationship they might have with a specific insurer involved in a given case, but instead, only qualify them as to any financial interest they might have in the outcome of the case, as advocated by Judge Johnson in Byrd v. Daus, 218 Ga. App. 145 (1) (460…