Supreme Court of Georgia, 1990

Sentry Insurance v. Majeed

Supreme Court of Georgia · Decided May 24, 1990 · Per Curiam

391 S.E.2d 649; 260 Ga. 203 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Cases that cite this one

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Atlanta National League Baseball Club, Inc. v. F. F. (Ga. Ct. App. 2014)
State Farm Automobile Insurance v. Metropolitan Property & Casualty Insurance (Ga. Ct. App. 2007)
Southern Heritage Insurance v. Greene Insurance Agency (Ga. Ct. App. 2001)
Chambers of Georgia, Inc. v. Department of Natural Resources (Ga. Ct. App. 1998)
Cotton States Mutual Insurance v. Stallings (Ga. Ct. App. 1998)
Adams v. Atlanta Casualty Co. (Ga. Ct. App. 1997)
Morgan v. Guaranty National Companies (Ga. 1997)
Wilson v. City of Atlanta (Ga. Ct. App. 1996)
Kelly v. City of Atlanta (Ga. Ct. App. 1995)
Southeast Toyota Distributors, Inc. v. Fellton (Ga. Ct. App. 1994)
Cotton v. Bank South, N.A. (Ga. Ct. App. 1994)
Hammond v. Sanders (Ga. Ct. App. 1993)
Atlanta Casualty Co. v. Fountain (Ga. 1992)
Fountain v. Atlanta Casualty Co. (Ga. Ct. App. 1991)
United Specialty Insurance Company v. Pedro Cardona-Rodriguez (Ga. Ct. App. 2019)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion

Per curiam.

We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals, Sentry Ins. v. Majeed, 194 Ga. App. 276 (390 SE2d 269) (1990), to consider the *204 Court of Appeals decision in light of Atlantic Wood Indus. v. Argonaut Ins. Co., 258 Ga. 800 (375 SE2d 221) (1989).

Decided May 24, 1990. Eason, Kennedy & Assoc., Richard B. Eason, Jr., for appellant. Prince A. Brumfield, Jr., for appellees.

In this case the Court of Appeals held that petitioner could not maintain an action for declaratory judgment to determine its liability to respondent under a policy of insurance, because there was no specific case or controversy pending. Rather, the case “involves an administrative claim between a private citizen and an insurance company.” 194 Ga. App. at 277. We agree with the Court of Appeals that petitioner’s action should have been dismissed.

Atlantic Wood, supra, is distinguishable. In that case this court held that the insured could maintain an action for declaratory judgment to determine the obligation of its insurers to defend an action pending against the insured. As stated above, in the case before us there is no pending action.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

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