Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Shannon

OPINION

SANDERS, Judge.

The Plaintiff has appealed from an adverse judgment in its declaratory judgment suit to void coverage under its automobile liability policy for failure of the insured to give timely notice of an accident.

In April, 1983, the Plaintiff-Appellant, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, had in effect an automobile liability insurance policy on a 1980 model Pontiac automobile issued in the name of the Defendant-Appellee, Melinda E. Shannon. On April 12, while Melinda was operating her automobile in an easterly direction on Cumberland Avenue at the intersection of 15th Street in…