State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Bates

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

On October 22,1980, the Court of Appeals of Georgia issued its decision in Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, 156 Ga.App. 230, 274 S.E.2d 623 (1980) (hereinafter Jones or Jones v. State Farm). Jones has left in its wake a flurry of lawsuits in which insurers statewide seek a determination that the implications of Jones do not apply to scores of other identical insureds. That issue is before the Court in these eleven cases.

Jones v. State Farm held that the insurer’s failure to obtain separate signatures of the applicant for insurance,…