Mimms v. Travelers Insurance

Deen, Presiding Judge.

It is well settled that an insurer providing general liability coverage to the general contractor of a building project which *890undertakes, pursuant to policy provisions, to conduct and report to the employer the results of safety inspections of the premises under construction, may be held liable for negligent inspection thereof, if reliance by either the employer or the employee on such inspections be proved. Huggins v. Aetna Casualty &c. Co., 245 Ga. 248 (264 SE2d 191) (1980).

The plaintiff, an employee of a subcontractor, was injured when the scaffold on which he was…