Industrial Life & Health Insurance v. Thomas

1. Where there is a breach of a contract of insurance by the insurer, as where an insurance company refuses to accept a premium on a life and health insurance policy tendered in accordance with the terms of the contract, and thus repudiates the contract, the insured may recover any damage he has sustained by reason of the breach, and ordinarily his measure of damages is the premiums paid, with' interest thereon. Alabama Gold Life Ins. Co. v. Garmany, 74 Ga. 51; Order of Ry. Conductors v. Clark, 159 Ga. 390, 392 (125 S. E. 841) ; Glover v. Bankers Health & Life Ins. Co., 30 Ga. App. 308 (117…