Allstate Insurance v. Demps

Plaintiff, Allstate Insurance Company, appeals as of right from the trial judge’s grant of summary judgment in defendants’ favor in this declaratory judgment action. The trial court held that, under the terms of defendant John Demps’s insurance policy, Allstate was required to defend him and to pay the amount of any judgment against him in a connected action between Demps and defendants Edgar and Cora Siegel.

Allstate filed its complaint for declaratory relief, alleging that a collision occurred between a 1971 Chevrolet driven by defendant Rickey Joe Berry and another automobile driven by…