51-1-32. Separate causes of action for personal injury and property damage caused by motor vehicle.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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In cases arising from the wrongful or negligent operation of a motor vehicle in which the single wrongful or negligent act causes or results in both physical injuries to a person and injuries to the property of such person, the injured person shall have a separate and distinct cause of action against the person whose wrongful or negligent act caused such injury for the physical injury to his person and a separate and distinct cause of action for the injuries to his property. The injured party shall have the right, in his sole discretion, to prosecute each cause of action separately or to combine the two causes of action in one single action.

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Code 1933, § 105-1301A, enacted by Ga. L. 1973, p. 295, § 1.

Cross references

Settlement offers and agreement for personal injury, bodily injury, and death from motor vehicle, § 9-11-67.1. Criminal penalties for homicide by vehicle and serious injury by vehicle, §§ 40-6-393, 40-6-394.

Law reviews

For article advocating moderate reform of auto accident compensation system prior to Georgia’s adoption of the Georgia Motor Vehicle Accident Reparations Act, see 5 Ga. St. B. J. 321 (1969). For note discussing the family purpose car doctrine as an extension of the principle of respondeat superior, see 3 Ga. St. B. J. 112 (1966).

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t51-(v39)-2017-pdf.pdf, Volumen V39, edición 2017, página 197; acción de fusión: annotated; SHA-256 del archivo bc30a40687b2.