Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Benham, Robert
Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. A. Simpson Jr., Linda G. Birchall Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy LLP, John A. Chandler, Carey P. DeDeyn, Teresa W. Roseborough Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, W. G. Scrantom Jr. Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford and C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, for appellant.
for defendant: Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III, Paul Kilpatrick Jr., Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, William B. Hardegree, James E. Humes II Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, Michael L. McGlamry, Elizabeth P. Holmes, William U. Norwood III Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Atlanta, and Christopher A. Kesler, Houston, Tex. for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Michael J. Goldman, H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell, Herbert D. Shellhouse, Alan W. Loeffler Troutman Sanders LLP, Dwight J. Davis, Sidney S. Haskins II King & Spalding, Atlanta, Benjamin A. Land, Clay D. Land Buchanan & Land LLP, Columbus, Charles W. Byrd Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Byrd, Perry, Frank H. Childs Jr. and Duke R. Groover Groover & Childs, Macon.
Case Number: S01A0982
The trial court properly determined that insurance companies must reimburse policyholders for the value, rather than the condition, of a vehicle that has sustained physical damage resulting from a