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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 24. EVIDENCE · Chapter 14. PROOF GENERALLY · Article 3. PARTICULAR MATTERS OF PROOF

24-14-44. American Experience Mortality Tables.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. In all civil proceedings where the life expectancy of a person shall be an issue, the American Experience Mortality Tables shall be admissible as evidence of the life expectancy of such person.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 24-14-44, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

Cross references

The American Experience Mortality Table, appendix to this volume.

Law reviews

For article discussing the use of mortality tables in determining the value of life earnings of the deceased in wrongful death actions, with emphasis on the Car-lisle table, see 9 Ga. St. B.J. 293 (1973). For article, economic evaluation of damages in personal injury and wrongful death litigation, see 19 Ga. St. B.J. 60 (1982). For article, “Damage Calibrations Under the Federal Tort Claims Act,” see 25 Ga. St. B.J. 100 (1988). For article, “Calculating Economic Damages in Georgia Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases,” see 22 Ga. St. Bar. J. 18 (Feb. 2017).

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