Pate v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

Donald L. Corbin, Judge.

This appeal is consolidated as the issues in each are identical. Larry Pate, a patient, and Sue Bean, an ambulance attendant traveling with him, were being transported by the Glenwood Rescue Ambulance Service. Keith Mangrum, the ambulance driver, crossed in front of a train and Pate and Bean were killed in the collision. Appellants, executors of Pate and Bean’s estates, filed wrongful death actions against United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, the ambulance service’s auto liability insurance carrier, and Western World Insurance Company, its driver and attendants…