Home Indemnity Company v. Thomas

Jordan, Presiding Judge.

An insurer purportedly providing uninsured motorist coverage to the plaintiff in an action against a known uninsured owner or operator who is alleged to be a tortfeasor is a party at interest to be served "as though . . . actually named as a party defendant” and is accorded the right, under present law, "to file pleadings, and take other action allowable by law in the name of either the known owner or operator or both or itself.” Ga. L. 1967, pp. 463, 464; Code Ann. §56-407.1 (d).

In our.view this statutory right is one which is not governed by the rules pertaining to…