Barron v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co.

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge.

The plaintiffs 1 in this lawsuit dismissed their personal injury and wrongful death lawsuit and filed this declaratory judgment action against Shelter Mutual Insurance Company, the insurer of the defendants in the original lawsuit, Rodney Oglesby and Billy Hunt. They did not name Oglesby or Hunt as defendants in this action.

The underlying facts of the case are not in dispute. The issue of Shelter’s liability emerged from a 2002 boating accident on Lake Pomme De Terre in Hickory County. The accident occurred when Oglesby, Shelter’s insured, crashed his fishing boat into…