Safeway Ins. Co. of Ala., Inc. v. Thomas

THOMAS, Judge.

*100In May 2015, Martez Thomas was the passenger in an automobile owned by Lena Spano and operated by Desean Evans, the father of Spano's child. An automobile operated by Calvin Jones ran a stop sign and collided with Spano's automobile; Thomas was injured. Thomas's damages exceeded the limits of Jones's automobile-liability policy, so Thomas sued Spano's insurer, Safeway Insurance Company of Alabama, Inc. ("Safeway"), in the Jefferson Circuit Court ("the trial court") seeking underinsured-motorist ("UIM") benefits. Safeway filed a motion for a summary judgment, in which it argued…