State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. T.B. Ex Rel. Bruce

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

State Farm Fire and Casualty Company declined to represent an insured homeowner in a suit brought by a child whom the insured's husband molested during daycare in the insured's home. The insured agreed to a consent judgment of $375,000, with the stipulation that none of it would be collected from the homeowner, and assigned all policy rights to the child. The trial court entered the judgment. It later granted summary judgment in favor of the child in proceedings supplemental against State Farm.

State Farm appeals, claiming that the trial court erred when it (1) estopped…