Atlanta Casualty Co. v. Gordon

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

We granted Atlanta Casualty Company’s application for interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s denial of its motion for summary judgment on this claim by a parent under his uninsured motorist’s policy for the wrongful death of his son. Because Georgia’s uninsured motorist statute does not require an insurance company to pay damages for the death of a person not insured under its policy, we reverse.

James Michael O’Neal, Jr., a minor, was struck and killed by an uninsured motorist. O’Neal, Jr.’s parents were separated at the time and he lived with his mother. The…