Sondra J. Estle v. Country Mutual Insurance Company

DONALD R. ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Sondra J. Estle (plaintiff) appeals the district court’s grant of defendant Country Mutual Insurance Company’s (defendant) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and the court’s subsequent denial of plaintiff’s Motion to Reconsider, both involving plaintiff’s efforts to collect insurance benefits from policies held with defendant insurance company. After a careful review of the record, briefs and arguments of the parties, we reverse and remand.

On May 18, 1990, plaintiff was in an automobile accident with an unidentified vehicle. At the time of the…