2021 Georgia Code
Title 33 - Insurance
Chapter 9 - Regulation of Rates, Underwriting Rules, and Related Organizations
§ 33-9-37. Liability of Insurer Conspiring to Fix Insurance Rates Unauthorized by Chapter
In the event any insurer shall in collusion with any other insurer conspire to fix, set, or adhere to insurance rates, except as expressly sanctioned by this chapter, the insurer shall be liable to any person damaged thereby for an amount equal to three times the amount of the damage together with the damaged party's attorney's fees.
(Code 1933, § 56-539, enacted by Ga. L. 1967, p. 684, § 1.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
ALR.
- Validity of statutory provision for attorneys' fees, 90 A.L.R. 530.
What persons or corporations, contracts or policies, are within statutory provisions allowing recovery of attorneys' fees or penalty against insurance companies or against companies dealing in specified kinds of insurance, 126 A.L.R. 1439.
When does statute of limitations begin to run against civil action or criminal prosecution for conspiracy, 62 A.L.R.2d 1369.
What constitutes "trial," "final trial," or "final hearing" under statute authorizing allowance of attorneys' fees as costs on such proceeding, 100 A.L.R.2d 397.
Validity of statute allowing attorneys' fee to successful claimant but not to defendant, or vice-versa, 73 A.L.R.3d 515.
