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Court Fines Insurer & Lawyer for Appealing Duty to Defend

Posted Nov 24, 2009 6:34 PM CST
By Martha Neil

An insurance company that not only refused its contractual duty to defend a policyholder but appealed a trial court's ruling that the duty to defend was not a close case has been hit with a $2,500 sanction by a Georgia appellate court.

And Atlanta attorney Dennis Brown of Buckley Brown was penalized $2,500, too, for making what the state Court of Appeals described as a frivolous filing on behalf of his client, Transportation Insurance Co., recounts the Continue reading

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