State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Scott

In this appeal, an insurer claims that the trial court erred (1) in refusing to hold as a matter of law that an insured had failed to give the insurer notice of an accident as soon as practicable; (2) in excluding from evidence an out-of-court statement made by the insured to the insurer’s agent; and (3) in requiring the insurer to pay attorneys’ fees incurred by an injured party’s uninsured motorist carrier.

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On May 22, 1982, Wanda Scott was injured in a single-vehicle accident. At the time, she was a passenger in a motor vehicle owned by Max Delano Turner (Turner) and operated by Alton…