Kavanaugh v. Mid-Century Insurance Co.

SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from the circuit court’s apportionment of proceeds of a wrongful death settlement between the decedent’s divorced parents. Both parties challenge the court’s division of the settlement proceeds. We affirm.

Kelly Kavanaugh died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on April 27, 1991. Kavanaugh was a passenger in a car driven by Jennifer Babbitt. The decedent’s father, C.E. Kavanaugh, filed a wrongful death action which the circuit court dismissed without prejudice. On April 19,1994, the decedent’s divorced parents, Gladene Ka-vanaugh and…