St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Nixon

Marshall, Presiding Justice.

This case is here on certiorari. Nixon v. St. Paul Fire &c. Ins. Co., 166 Ga. App. 38 (303 SE2d 158) (1983). It presents the question of whether an application for optional no-fault motor-vehicle insurance coverage is in substantial compliance with the requirements of OCGA § 33-34-5 (b) (Code Ann. § 56-3404b) (Ga. L. 1974, p. 113, § 4), where the application contains separate spaces for the insured to indicate his acceptance or rejection of the optional coverages, but the insured’s signature appears only at the bottom of the page of the insurance application…