Abbott v. Interinsurance Exchange

—This appeal is concerned with the question whether the Legislature intended to change the previously enforced public policy of the state with respect to coverage by all insurance policies of innocent third parties injured by an insured’s automobile when driven by a permit-tee, through the addition of an endorsement to a policy to the effect that the insurance would not apply if a specified person were driving the ear. The trial court held that the public policy of the state is not eliminated by such a device. We approve the holding.

The record shows that the plaintiffs, H. J. Abbott and his…