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Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 12. DAMAGES · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

51-12-1. Types of damages; evidence admissible in actions involving special damages.

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

  1. (a)

    Damages may be either general or special, direct or consequential.#

  2. (b)

    In any civil action, whether in tort or in contract, for the recovery of damages arising from a tortious injury in which special damages are sought to be recovered or evidence of same is otherwise introduced by the plaintiff, evidence of all compensation, indemnity, insurance (other than life insurance), wage loss replacement, income replacement, or disability benefits or payments available to the injured party from any and all governmental or private sources and the cost of providing and the extent of such available benefits or payments shall be admissible for consideration by the trier of fact. The trier of fact, in its discretion, may consider such available benefits or payments and the cost thereof but shall not be directed to reduce an award of damages accordingly.#

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

Orig. Code 1863, § 3001; Code 1868, § 3014; Code 1873, § 3069; Code 1882, § 3069; Civil Code 1895, § 3909; Civil Code 1910, § 4506; Code 1933, § 105-2005; Ga. L. 1987, p. 915, § 3.

Law reviews

For article, ‘‘Georgia’s New Collateral Source Rule,’’ see 39 Mercer L. Rev. 1 (1987). For article, ‘‘Recovery of Lost Profit Damages for Business Interruption or Destruction,’’ see 28 Ga. St. B. J. 63 (1991). For annual survey on law of evidence, see 43 Mercer L. Rev. 257 (1991). For article, ‘‘The Georgia Jury and Negligence: The View From the (Federal) Bench,’’ see 27 Ga. L. Rev. 59 (1992). For note, ‘‘The Collateral Source Rule in Georgia: A New Method of Equal Protection Analysis Brings a Return to the Old Common Law Rule,’’ see 8 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 835 (1992).

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

Text read from t51-(v39)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volume V39, 2017 edition, pages 839 to 840; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 bc30a40687b2.