Standard Guaranty Insurance v. Bundrage

Hunstein, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case, as respondent Roosevelt Bundrage stated in his brief before us, “to consider the effect of assignments of benefits in both tort and insurance cases.” We have recently addressed these same issues in Allianz Life Ins. Co. v. Riedl, 264 Ga. 395 (444 SE2d 736) (1994), in which a majority of this Court rejected all of the arguments Bundrage raised regarding the effect of such assignments. Bundrage now asserts that the documents he executed were not assignments but instead were powers of attorney. However, a review of the record reveals that…