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# O.C.G.A. § 24-14-45. Other mortality tables; supplemental nature.

(a) In addition to any other lawful methods of computing the value of the life of a decedent in wrongful death cases or of determining the present value of future due earnings or amounts in proceedings involving permanent personal injuries, there shall be admissible in evidence, as competent evidence in such proceedings, either or both of the following mortality tables:

(1) The Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table; or

(2) Annuity Mortality Table for 1949, Ultimate.

(b) In addition to the provisions set out in subsection (a) of this Code section, the jury or court shall be authorized in cases of wrongful death or permanent personal injuries to use any table determined by the jury or court, whichever is the trier of fact, to be accurate in showing the value of annuities on single lives according to the mortality tables listed in subsection (a) of this Code section.

(c) The admissible evidence provided for in subsections (a) and (b) of this Code section shall not be the exclusive method which the jury or court is required to use in such proceedings but shall be supplementary to other lawful and allowable evidence and methods for such purpose.

## History

Code 1981, § 24-14-45, enacted by Ga. L. 2011, p. 99, § 2/HB 24.

## Cross References

The Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table and the Annuity Mortality Table for 1949, Ultimate, 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).