American Justice Insurance Reciprocal v. Hutchison

OPINION

DROWOTA, J.

QUESTIONS CERTIFIED

Pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1 this Court has accepted two questions certified to us by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The questions are as follows:

1. Whether the Sheriff of Knox County and employees of the Knox County Sheriffs Department were volunteers of the Scott County Sheriffs Department when they received no compensation from Scott County but received their regular salary from Knox County.

2. Whether a standard liability policy is automatically forfeited when the insured…