Addington v. Allstate Insurance Company

Whitmore, Judge.

Appellant Patricia G. Addington has appealed the judgment of the Lorain County Common Pleas Court that entered summary judgment against her, in favor of appellee Allstate Insurance Company. This court affirms.

I

On August 27, 1994, appellant’s granddaughter, Patricia Hill, was killed in an automobile accident by an uninsured motorist in Lorain County, Ohio. During September 1999, appellant, a policyholder with Allstate, submitted a claim to the carrier, seeking wrongful-death damages that she sustained as the result of her granddaughter’s death. In turn, Allstate determined that…