Adams v. UNUM Life Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this statute only provides for a claim against the insurer under the policy; it does not provide for a separate claim against the administrator of an insurance plan.
• “Georgia case law, however, clearly establishes that O.C.G.A. § 33-4-6 is the exclusive remedy for an insurer’s bad faith refusal to pay insurance proceeds, and that claims for attorney’s fees and litigation expenses under other Georgia statutes are not authorized.”
• “Georgia case law, however, clearly establishes that O.C.G.A. § 33–4–6 is the exclusive remedy for an insurer’s bad faith refusal to pay insurance proceeds, and that claims for attorney’s fees and litigation expenses under other Georgia statutes are not authorized.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).