Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Ritchie

Sognier, Judge.

Sheryl Ritchie filed a complaint against Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company seeking to recover payment of optional PIP benefits under her automobile insurance policy. The insurance company answered enumerating eleven separate defenses. Ritchie filed a motion to strike ten of the defenses on the grounds that said defenses were insufficient and contained redundant, immaterial, impertinent and scandalous matter. OCGA § 9-11-12 (f) (formerly Code Ann. § 81A-112 (f)). The trial court granted Ritchie’s motion as to six of the insurance company’s defenses on the ground that…