Legal Opinion
Geico Indemnity Company v. Whiteside
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided April 19, 2021No. S21Q0227PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
311 Ga. 346
FINAL COPY S21Q0227. GEICO INDEMNITY COMPANY 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 (III) (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 Guthrie, who was injured in…
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