WHITESIDE v. GEICO INDEM. CO.

No. 18-15074.

977 F.3d 1014 (2020)

Fife M. WHITESIDE, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GEICO INDEMNITY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Scot Rigsbee , Frank M. Lowrey, IV , Michael B. Terry , Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Miranda J. Brash , Charles A. Gower , Shaun P. O'Hara , Charles A. Gower, PC, Columbus, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Leah Ward Sears , Edward Henry Wasmuth, Jr , Smith Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Atlanta, GA, Joseph Robb Cruser , Kathleen M. Hurley , Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet, LLC, Norcross, GA, Wallace Miller, III , Wallace Miller III, LLC, Macon, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WILSON and GRANT, Circuit Judges, and MARTINEZ, District Judge.


In this bad-faith suit, GEICO has been found liable for rejecting a policy-limits demand against one of its insureds. The measure of damages in this suit came from an earlier negligence case that GEICO neither knew about nor participated in. The attorney for the injured party did not notify GEICO about the negligence suit&...

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