North Pacific Insurance v. Switzler

Defendants appeal from a declaratory judgment in plaintiffs favor, ORS 28.010, challenging the trial court’s subject matter and personal jurisdiction. We reverse.

Defendants are three Native American youths who were involved in a single-car accident on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Plaintiff is an insurance company that had issued a liability policy to the grandparents of the vehicle’s driver. Defendants claimed that the driver was covered under the policy, but plaintiff disagreed.

The accident occurred on June 26, 1990. Keegan Kalama, a minor, was driving his father’s pickup truck on…