Love v. McKnight

321 Ga. 196

FINAL COPY S24G0371. LOVE V. MCKNIGHT. BOGGS, Chief Justice. We granted certiorari in this case to consider the Court of Appeals’s determination that evidence of a party’s violations of traffic laws is sufficient to create a jury question as to whether that party acted in bad faith for purposes of authorizing an award of expenses of litigation under OCGA § 13-6-11.1 See McKnight v. Love, 369 Ga. App. 812, 822-824 ( 894 SE2d 110) (2023). We determine that the Court of Appeals’s analysis is inconsistent with the proper interpretation of “bad faith” under OCGA § 13-6-11 and that…