Cases
1. The Best Jewelry Manufacturing Company, Inc. v. ARC Security, Inc., 249 Ga. App. 695, 548 S.E. 2d 134 (2001) denied. Ga. LEXIS 851 (no reason given). Airline tariff rules applied to bar passengers claim for alleged theft of $750,000.00 in jewelry at airport security checkpoint
2. Howell v. United States Fire Insurance Company, 185 Ga. App. 154, 363 S.E. 2d 560 (1987) denied. 488 US 943 (no reason given). Failure of pilot to meet experience requirements of aircraft insurance policy held to bar coverage under policy for aircraft that crashed resulting in deaths of 16 parachutists
total loss of the aircraft
3. Coren v. Puritan Insurance Company, 184 Ga. App. 667, 362 S.E. 2d 380 (1987). First case in Georgia to uphold denial of coverage because helicopter airworthiness certificate was not in full force
effect due to incomplete maintenance on the helicopter at the time of accident
4. Atlanta Air Fleet, Inc. v. Insurance Company of North America et al., 130 Ga. App. 15, 202 S.E. 2d 192 (1973) denied. No reason given. First Georgia case to hold that there is no coverage for aircraft accident while the pilot in comm
is not properly certificated
rated for the aircraft even though the aircraft was being flown without the knowledge or consent of the insured at the time of the accident in question
5. Southeastern Stages, Inc. v. General Fire
Casualty Company, 151 Ga. App. 487, 260 S.E. 2d 399 (1979). Held that first notice of accident six months after the underlying tort suit was filed was insufficient as a matter of law to invoke coverage
6. Ranger Insurance Company v. Columbus - Muscogee Aviation, Inc., 130 Ga. App. 742, 204 S.E. 2d 474 (1974). First Georgia case to hold that the failure of a pilot to hold a valid
effective medical certificate at the time of the accident in question resulted in no coverage under the aircraft liability policy even though the failure bore no causal relationship to the accident
7. Farmers
Merchant's Bank of Manchester v. Ranger Insurance Company, 125 Ga. App. 166, 186 S.E. 2d. 579 (1971) denied. 1971 Ga. LEXIS 773 (no reason given). First Georgia case to hold there would be no coverage under aircraft liability policy for claims arising from accident where student pilot was transporting a passenger in violation of Federal Aviation regulations prohibiting student pilots from acting as pilot in comm
of an aircraft carrying a passenger
8. Continental Assurance Company v. Rothell, 227 Ga. 258, 181 S.E. 2d 283 (1971). First Georgia case holding that, in an action on an accidental death policy, there's no legal presumption that death resulted from an accident
9. Gulf States Ceramic v. Fenster, 228 Ga. 400, 185 S.E. 2d. 801 (1971). First Georgia case holding that the exclusive remedy provisions of the Georgia Worker's Compensation Act which bar claims by an employee against his employer also bar claims by the employees spouse for loss of consortium.
