Cannon v. Farmers Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Davis, J.

Lindsay Cannon and her passenger Adam Hipp were injured in a one-car accident allegedly caused by the negligent driver of a phantom vehicle. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. (Farmers) settled with Hipp on his liability claim against Cannon. However, Farmers denied Cannons uninsured motorist claim based on a policy exclusion preventing Hipp, as one having a claim from the same accident, from verifying die facts of the accident. The trial court held that Hipp’s liability claim did not disqualify him as a witness under statutory mandated uninsured…