Insurance companies typically hire defense counsel for their insureds and manage the litigation. This can create ethical dilemmas for the defense lawyers.
Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.2(4) provides that “[when a lawyer has been retained by an insurer to represent an insured, the representation may be limited to matters covered by the insurance policy.” However, the terms of an insurance policy may not limit the obligations owed by insurance company lawyers to insured clients, including the duty to inform the insured defendant of settlement offers and of the opportunity to settle within policy limits. See, e.g., Hartford Acc. & Indem. Co. v. Foster, 528 So.2d 255 (Miss. 1988).

The Shigley Law Firm represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice rules in each state. Ken Shigley was designated as a “SuperLawyer” in Atlanta Magazine and one of the “Legal Elite” in Georgia Trend Magazine. He is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and former chair of the Georgia Insurance Law Institute. He particularly focuses on cases arising from truck wrecks and accidents (tractor trailers truck wrecks, semi truck wrecks,18 wheeler truck wrecks, big rig truck wrecks, log truck wrecks, dump truck wrecks).