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Apr 14, 2015

The Georgia Court of Appeals Looks at Duties Arising from Insurance Company Inspections

The January term of the Georgia Court of Appeals ended on March 30, 2014. As is often the case, the Court issued some of its more interesting decisions at the end of the term. In Bing v. The Zurich Servs. Corp., Case No. A14A1911 (decided March 25, 2015), the Court addressed the tort duties that arise when an insurance company undertakes inspections of its insured’s property. The case arose out of the explosion that occurred in 2008 at the Imperial Sugar Company sugar refinery in Port Wentworth, Georgia. Zurich American Insurance Company, who had issued a property insurance policy for… Read more