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2010 Georgia Code

TITLE 24 - EVIDENCE

CHAPTER 4 - PROOF GENERALLY
ARTICLE 3 - PARTICULAR MATTERS OF PROOF
§ 24-4-45 - Other mortality tables

O.C.G.A. 24-4-45 (2010)
24-4-45. Other mortality tables


(a) In addition to any other lawful methods of computing the value of the life of a decedent in wrongful death cases or of determining the present value of future due earnings or amounts in cases involving permanent personal injuries, there shall be admissible in evidence, as competent evidence in such cases, either or both of the following mortality tables:

(1) The Commissioners 1958 Standard Ordinary Mortality Table;

(2) Annuity Mortality Table for 1949, Ultimate.

(b) In addition to the provisions set out in subsection (a) of this Code section, the jury or court shall be authorized in cases of wrongful death or permanent personal injuries to use any table determined by the jury or court, whichever is the trier of fact, to be accurate in showing the value of annuities on single lives according to the mortality tables listed in subsection (a) of this Code section.

(c) The admissible evidence provided for in subsections (a) and (b) of this Code section shall not be the exclusive method which the jury or court hereafter is required to use in such cases but shall be supplementary to other lawful and allowable evidence and method for such purpose otherwise obtaining in this state.