Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr.

CERTIFICATION FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA PURSUANT TO O.C.G.A. § 15-2-9

TO THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA AND ITS HONORABLE JUSTICES:

This appeal involves three unsettled questions of Georgia law that are central to its resolution. The first question is whether Georgia's apportionment statute, O.C.G.A. § 51-12-33, applies to tort claims for purely pecuniary losses against bank directors and officers. The second is *1251 whether § 51-12-33 abrogated Georgia's common-law rule imposing joint and several liability on tortfeasors who act…