Legal Question in Personal Injury in Georgia

My husband wants to allow his 20 year old daughter to have 20 plus college age friends to have a two or three day party at our lakehouse, unsupervised. I am opposed due to the legal liability if there is an accident. There will of course be heavy drinking and two boats at their disposal. He thinks his insurance policy will protect him if there is an accident. I think it's $5,000,000. Will it protect us if there is a serious accident in a lawsuit?


Asked on 3/30/13, 5:30 am

2 Answers from Attorneys
Scott Riddle Law Office of Scott B. Riddle, LLC

There is no way to answer - no one here has your policy or knows what it covers. Unless you or your husband have read it carefully, "thinking" it covers it is not good enough. We can certainly come up with examples of situations in which property owners are sued for much more than $5 million (and you can find them via google), as well as recent examples in Georgia of people getting killed when a drunk person operates a boat. The list of bad things that can happen is long. The "reasonable person" standard provides the answer to the question of what you should do.

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Answered on 3/30/13, 5:40 am
Glen Ashman Ashman Law Office also dba Glen Ashman Attorney

Your husband frankly is a moron. First of all, you and he could (and should) go to prison for allowing underage consumption of alcohol. Your daughter also could face arrest.

No one here has read your policy to know if it would cover civil liability, but many policies exclude certain things, so you could have no coverage. And if someone dies (let's say from a drunk driver), $5 million may be woefully inadequate.

No reasonable parent would even consider this.

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Answered on 3/30/13, 7:31 am


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