GEICO INDEM. CO. v. WHITESIDE

S21Q0227.

857 S.E.2d 654 (2021)

GEICO INDEMNITY CO. v. WHITESIDE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: April 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Robb Cruser , Kathleen Marie Hurley , Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet LLP, Meridian II, Suite 2000, 275 Scientific Drive, Norcross, Georgia 30092, Wallace Miller, III , General Counsel, Wallace Miller III, LLC, P.O. Box 7126, Macon, Georgia 31209-7126, Leah Ward Sears , Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr. , Colin Dang Delaney , Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, Promenade, Suite 3100, 1230 Peachtree Street N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Appellant.

Timothy Scot Rigsbee , Frank Mitchell Lowrey, IV , Michael Brian Terry , Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP, 3900 One Atlantic Center, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3417, Miranda Johnston Brash , Charles Austin Gower, Jr. , Shaun Patrick O'Hara , Charles A. Gower PC, 1425 Wynnton Road, P.O. Box 5509, Columbus, Georgia 31906, for Appellee.

David Marlow Atkinson , Bradley S. Wolff , Douglas Lee Clayton , Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP, 1355 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3591, Jeffrey S. Ward , Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, 777 Gloucester Street, Suite 305, Brunswick, Georgia 31520, Elissa Blache Haynes , Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, 303 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 3500, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins , Balch & Bingham, LLP, 30 Ivan Allen Jr. Boulevard, N.W., Suite 700, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, Philip Michael Thompson , Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP, 2 East Bryan Street, 10th Floor, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Amicus Appellant.

Richard English Dolder, Jr. , James Nicholas Sadd , Slappey & Sadd, LLC, 352 Sandy Springs Circle, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, David Austin Bersinger , Bersinger Law LLC, 1776 Peachtree St. NW, Suite 433 — South, Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Amicus Appellee.


The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit certified to this Court three questions of Georgia law relating to a lawsuit brought in federal district court by Fife Whiteside, the trustee of the bankruptcy estate of Bonnie Winslett. See Whiteside v. GEICO Indem. Co., 977 F.3d 1014

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