partial payment of its $100,000 policy limits and whether that partial payment should be offset for purposes of calculating the amount of post-judgment interest owed on the underlying state court judgment which is awarded here as an additional element of bad faith damages. As explained above, in a bad faith action against an insured titled only to the principal amount of the judgment that exceeds the $100,000 policy limits—$5,730,000—post-judgment interest as an additional element of bad faith damages accrued on the entire principal amount of the 2009 underlying wrongful death judgment of $5,830,000. See O.G.G.A. § 7-4-12(a) (providing that judgments “bear annual interest upon the principal amount recovered ... ”); see also Southern General Ins. Co. v. Ross, 489 S.E.2d at 56 (<HOLDING>) (citing 8A Apple-man Ins. Law & Practice p.
holding that a claim against an insurer for vexatious refusal to pay cannot be maintained where the court finds that the insurer has no duty to defend under the policy holding that poliey language stating that insurer will pay all interest accruing on judgment against its insured requires an insurer to pay interest on the entire judgment amount holding despite a reservation of rights that when the insurer provides a defense to its insured the insured has no right to interfere with the insurers control of the defense and a stipulated judgment between the insured and the injured claimant without the consent of the insurer is ineffective to impose liability upon the insurer holding that court of appeals was without jurisdiction to modify judgment against insurer because judgment against insurer became final when it failed to appeal holding that insured may recover from its insurer any attorney fees incurred in successfully attempting to force the insurer to defend an action against the insured