Wheelways Insurance Co. v. Hodges

OPINION

BLEIL, Justice.

Wheelways Insurance Company appeals from a judgment entered in favor of its insured’s assignee, Marcia Hodges. The pivotal question on appeal concerns whether the trial court erred in determining the amount of actual damages as a matter of law. Other questions involve the award of punitive damages, the propriety of a partial summary judgment barring Wheelways from asserting its contractual defenses, and a jury instruction that Wheelways had a duty to defend its insured, Donald Harvey. We affirm the judgment insofar as it finalized a partial summary judgment against…