Court Opinion

ID: 9781137
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 16:14:00.46424+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:34:18.177538
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BLACKWELL, Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree that the judgment below ought to be affirmed, but I do not think the analysis is as complicated as the majority opinion suggests. When the General Assembly amended OCGA § 33-7-11 in 2008, it specified that the amendment applies “to all policies issued, delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed in this state on and after [January 1, 2009].” Ga. L. 2008, p. 1192, § 5. That is all we need to know to conclude that the amendment does not apply to the policy at issue here, inasmuch as that policy was issued and delivered prior to January 1, 2009. For that reason, the commentary in the majority opinion about the distinctions between substantive and procedural *15statutes is unnecessary.
Decided March 20, 2012.
Carl G. Fulp III, for appellant.
Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence, James B. Thagard, Brian J. Miller, Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Anthony A. Rowell, Charles A. Dorminy, for appellee.