Court Opinion

ID: 9844934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 03:11:53.042387+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:15:47.467144
License: Public Domain

On Motton for, Rehearing.
An examination of the record in Travelers Indem. Co. v. Marks, 111 Ga. App. 388 (141 SE2d 911) reveals that the terms of the insurance policy in that case were substantially the same as in this case and also as in Southern Fire Ins. Co. v. Knight, 111 Ga. 622, supra. In each case, one provision of the policy was-to the effect that the insured shall, within a given period of time, furnish proofs of loss, and the other was to the effect that no action on the policy would be sustainable until after “full compliance by the insured with all the foregoing requirements.” To the extent that there is a conflict between Marks and the present case, we are bound by the decision of the Supreme Court that such language, in the absence of a stipulation in the insurance contract, that the filing of proofs of loss within a designated time, is a condition precedent to recovery or will work a forfeiture, the failure to file within the time limited will not, as a matter of law, bar recovery. The same is true of: South Carolina Ins. Co. v. Hunnicutt, 107 Ga. App. 366 (1) (130 SE2d 239); Reserve Ins. Co. v. Campbell, 107 Ga. App. 311, supra; Aetna Cas. &c. Co. v. Sampley, 108 Ga. App. 617 (4) (134 SE2d 71).

Rehearing denied.