Geico General Insurance Co. v. Dixon

SHEPHERD, Senior Judge.

This is an appeal by GEICO General Insurance Company from a trial court order denying GEICO’s motion for new trial on compensatory damages in an automobile accident case involving an uninsured motorist in which the jury first considered and awarded compensatory damages against both GEICO and the co-defendant uninsured motorist driver arising out of the accident, and then reconvened to consider an award of punitive damages against the uninsured motorist driver alone. Before trial, GEICO and the co-defendant uninsured motorist driver admitted liability for the accident,…