Court Opinion

ID: 9578934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:49:45.384084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:39.882630
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CARLEY, Presiding Justice,
dissenting.
For the reasons set forth in Judge Ellington’s excellent opinion in Staton v. State Farm Auto. Ins. Co., 294 Ga. App. 208 (669 SE2d 164) (2008), I believe that the judgment of the Court of Appeals should be affirmed in its entirety. Accordingly, I must respectfully dissent to the majority’s opinion reversing that judgment and reinstating the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the insurer. The result reached today deprives Staton of his right to stack the limits of all of the available uninsured motorist coverage provided by the policies as properly construed by the Court of Appeals. See Ford v. Ga. Farm &c. Ins. Co., 191 Ga. App. 735, 737 (382 SE2d 659) (1989).
I am authorized to state that Chief Justice Hunstein joins in this dissent.