Garel v. Georgia Insurers' Insolvency Pool

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Garel sustained injuries in an automobile accident and was hospitalized in Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. His no-fault insurer, Reserve Insurance Company, had become insolvent and therefore did not pay the hospital bill. Some three months after the hospitalization Garel presented to the Georgia Insurers’ Insolvency Pool (insolvency pool) the necessary proofs of entitlement to no-fault benefits; the insolvency pool paid the bill shortly after receipt of these proofs, but retained the portion of the payment equal to that already paid to the hospital by…