Albergotti v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States

LOVETT, District Judge.

The motion for new trial in this case complains that the verdict is without evidence to support it and particularly that the allowance of attorneys’ fees by the jury for bad faith under Georgia Code, § 56-706, is unauthorized.

Plaintiff’s action is based upon a policy of life insurance issued by defendant to her husband, of which she was the designated beneficiary, containing provisions for double indemnity for death resulting “solely from bodily injuries caused directly, exclusively and independently of all other causes by external, violent and purely accidental means”.…