Woods v. Progressive Mutual Insurance

Plaintiff’s decedent, bis daughter, died as a result of injuries suffered in a highway collision between the vehicle in which she was a passenger and a Case 310 bulldozer propelled and operated on crawler treads. The owner and operator of the bulldozer was uninsured for liability.

Plaintiff brought this action to obtain recovery under an automobile “family protection policy” issued by the defendant insurance company to Ernest J. Woods. The policy insured against liability for personal injury and provided “uninsured automobile” protection but in defining that term excluded

“a land motor vehicle…