Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Gieringer
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided March 11, 2005No. S-10909PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FABE, Justice.
I. INTRODUCTION
Traci Phillips was involved in an automobile accident with Carl Gieringer, who was insured under the same State Farm auto insurance policy as his father, Robert Gier-inger. After some negotiation and discussion of the case with State Farm, Phillips mistakenly named Carl’s father as the defendant driver in the complaint which she filed in a personal injury suit. After the statute of limitations had run, Phillips moved to amend the complaint to name Carl as a defendant. Because Carl maintained that he was unaware of the lawsuit during the limitations period,…
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