Georgia Insurers Insolvency Pool v. Southeast Atlantic Cargo Operators, Inc.

Pope, Chief Judge.

Defendant Georgia Insurers Insolvency Pool (“GIIP”) appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to plaintiff Southeast Atlantic Cargo Operators, Inc. (“SEACO”) and denial of summary judgment to GIIP.

One of SEACO’s employees was seriously injured while working in a warehouse operated by the Georgia Ports Authority (“GPA”). The employee sued GPA, and GPA in turn brought a third-party indemnity action against SEACO. SEACO’s insurer was declared insolvent in May 1986, while the third-party claim was pending, so GIIP took over SEACO’s defense in accordance with the…