"Read (or Craft) Your Release Carefully: How Release Language Can Prevent Access to Other Insurance"

Swift Currie partner Marc Barré recently published an article for the Daily Report titled "Read (or Craft) Your Release Carefully: How Release Language Can Prevent Access to Other Insurance."

In Georgia, there is only one way to settle with a tortfeasor while preserving claims for other available insurance, and that way is strict compliance with O.C.G.A. § 33-24-41.1. The statute’s requirements are not suggestions; they are mandatory predicates to preserving potentially substantial access to other insurance, including UM benefits.

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