The Carnell Law Firm, Llc
personal injury | workers' compensation | criminal defense
Under Georgia law, you can set the other person’s insurance company up to have to pay Bad Faith damages and attorney’s fees if you send them a demand pursuant to O.C.G.A. 33-4-7. You should take extra care to prove the value of your vehicle or the cost of the damages by getting as many estimates or comparables as possible. Or, you can hire an expert witness to do a pre-damage appraisal. The insurance company has 60 days to pay the demand. If they don’t pay, you must sue the person who hit you but serve the insurance company as if they were a defendant in the case. You must go to trial and win. That means get as much (or more) than what you demanded from the insurance company. Then, and only then, can you reveal to the fact-finder (usually the jury) that you sent a demand pursuant to O.C.G.A. 33-4-7. The fact-finder then gets to decide if failing to pay your demand was in bad faith. If they do, you will be awarded $5,000 or 50% of the verdict…whichever is higher. Then, you can put on evidence of attorney’s fees and be awarded those as well.
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4056 Wetherburn Way NW, Ste 3
Peachtree Corners,
GA
30092
Phone:
770-322-4990
Fax:
770-308-4226
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