Legal Opinion
Charlene Harper v. Vigilant Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 6, 2005No. 04-1087PublishedCited by 170 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COFFEY, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant, Charlene Harper, acting in the capacity of administrator of Jane Doe’s (“Jane”) estate, appeals an order of the district court granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant-appellee Vigilant Insurance Company (“Vigilant”). The district court found that Jane, as an assignee of John Doe’s (“John”) rights to sue Vigilant for bad faith failure to defend and indemnify, could not prevail because John was not a “resident” of his father’s “household” under the terms of his father’s homeowner’s insurance policy. The trial court also concluded, in the…
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