Aetna Casualty & Surety Company v. Hatridge

MEMORANDUM OPINION

OREN HARRIS, Chief Judge.

This is an action for declaratory judgment in which the plaintiff seeks a determination of the coverage of its insurance policy.

Defendants herein were parties to an action in the Circuit Court of Union County, Arkansas. A default judgment was entered in that case awarding Gene Rodney Hatridge $50,000.00 and his wife, Barbara Ann Hatridge, in her claim for loss of consortium $10,000.00 against the defendant, Herman L. Reid. The suit was based on the negligence of Reid who was the driver of a bus involved in a vehicular accident in which Gene Rodney…