Reserve Life Insurance v. Peavy

1. If negotiations are pending between an insurance company and an insured as to the canceling of a policy, but the minds of the parties have not met and a cancellation has not become actually effective at the time a claim arises, the insurance company cannot use the cancellation of the policy as a defense. Home Ins. Co. of New York v. Chattahoochee Lumber Co., 126 Ga. 334 (55 S. E. 11).

2. For a notice to an insured to be the basis of a cancellation of an insurance policy it must positively and unequivocally indicate “. . . to the insured that it is the intention of the company that the…