Peoples v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiff Peoples appeals from the trial court’s grant of his uninsured/underinsured motorist carrier State Farm’s motion to dismiss based on its claim of untimely service of process. Peoples contends that the court erred because, prior to the expiration of the two-year statutory limitation, he filed a motion for leave to add State Farm and also State Farm had been notified of the possibility of a claim.

On September 21, 1990, Peoples was a passenger in a vehicle which collided with a vehicle operated by Holley. By letter to Peoples’ counsel dated February 17, 1992, a…