Vidal v. American General Companies

OPINION

BACA, Justice.

Vidal, plaintiff below, appeals the district court’s grant of American General Fire & Casualty Company’s (American General) motion for summary judgment. The trial court granted the defendants’ motion, determining that because plaintiff had violated a clause in its insurance policy with American General by settling with a third-party tort-feasor without the insurer’s consent, the company was not obligated to pay Vidal’s underinsured motorist claim. Vidal contends that the trial court should consider the factual issue of whether American General’s own settlement with the…