Gene Kimbrell, D/B/A Gene Kimbrell's Body Shop, Inc. v. Union Standard Insurance Company

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Union Standard Insurance Company appeals a trial court judgment declaring that Gene Kimbrell is indemnified under a garage operations insurance policy issued to his corporation, Gene Kimbrell’s Body Shop, Inc. We reverse based on Mr. Kim-brell’s failure timely to notify Union Standard of the underlying lawsuit.

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Mr. Kimbrell was involved in a motor vehicle accident in January, 1997. According to trial testimony, two or three months later he discussed the accident with an individual at First Arkansas Insurance, where he had purchased the Union Standard…