Helmuth v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia

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• prior suit seeking proceeds from insurance policy precluded subsequent suit alleging fraud against insurance company
• plaintiff seeking the proceeds of a life insurance policy may not initially sue the insurance company under a contract theory and, after an unfavorable outcome, seek to sue the insurance company under a tort theory if the plaintiff could have asserted both theories in a single action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).