SIMS v. AMERICAN CAS. CO.

48875.

131 Ga. App. 461 (1974)

206 S.E.2d 121

SIMS et al. v. AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided March 15, 1974.

Rehearing Denied March 29, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shoob, McLain & Jessee, C. James Jessee, Jr., George E. Duncan, Jr., for appellants.

Gambrell, Russell, Killorin, Wade & Forbes, Edward W. Killorin, Richard L. Stumm, Henning, Chambers & Mabry, E. Speer Mabry, Walter B. McClelland, Lokey & Bowden, Glenn Frick, Greene, Buckley, DeRieux & Jones, Hugh Robinson, Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, Robert L. Pennington, Ezra Cohen, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Randall L. Hughes, J. Patrick Conney, Frank Love, Jr., James C. Rawls, Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, George W. Hart, Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Charles M. Goetz, Jr., Neely, Freeman & Hawkins, Albert H. Parnell, A. Ed Lane, for appellees.


HALL, Presiding Judge.

This appeal presents two basic issues, one procedural and one substantive, both of which are matters of first impression in Georgia. The substantive point concerns whether an insurance company carrying a policy other than a workmen's compensation coverage policy on an employer may incur common law tort liability to insured's employees for negligence in the performance of safety inspections which the insurer may make either gratuitously or pursuant...

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