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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 33. INSURANCE · Chapter 7. KINDS OF INSURANCE; LIMITS OF RISKS; REINSURANCE

33-7-9. Vehicle insurance.

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

  1. Vehicle insurance is insurance against loss of or damage to any land vehicle or aircraft, any draft or riding animal, or to property while contained therein or thereon or being loaded or unloaded therein or therefrom from any hazard or cause, and against any loss, liability, or expense resulting from or incident to ownership, maintenance, or use of any such vehicle, aircraft, or animal, together with insurance against accidental death or accidental injury to individuals, including the named insured, while in, entering, alighting from, adjusting, repairing, cranking, or caused by being struck by a vehicle, aircraft, or draft or riding animal, if such insurance is issued as a part of insurance on the vehicle, aircraft, or draft or riding animal; and provisions of medical, hospital, surgical, and disability benefits to injured persons, funeral and death benefits to dependents, beneficiaries or personal representatives of persons killed, irrespective of legal liability of the insured, when issued as an incidental coverage with or supplemental to liability insurance.

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 1933, § 56-407, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1.

Cross references

Motor vehicle accident insurance, T. 33, C. 34.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Uninsured Motorist Coverage in Georgia,’’see 4 Ga. St. B.J. 329 (1968). For annual survey of insurance law, see 42 Mercer L. Rev. 259 (1990).

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

Text read from t33-ch1-22-(v24)-2020-pdf.pdf, Volume V24, 2020 edition, pages 292 to 293; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 4ecec175d949.