Holt v. Automotive Casualty Insurance Co.

LABORDE, Judge.

In this automobile accident case, appellants Robert and Ann Holt appeal the trial court’s reduction of a jury’s award of damages against a UM insurer by the amount previously tendered by a liability carrier. Finding no error by the trial court as a consequence of the very clear instructions given the jury in this regard, we affirm.

FACTS

On July 10, 1989, plaintiff Ann Holt, was traveling west on Highway 28. Seeking to turn left under the caution light at the intersection of Highway 121, she stopped to permit oncoming traffic to pass. Mr. Michael Fraley, traveling behind Mrs.…