Kaynor v. Farline

Corissa and Christopher Kaynor were injured when a vehicle driven by 17-year-old Nicholas Farline *578struck their vehicle. Later, Mr. Kaynor died of his injuries. Based on the family car doctrine, Ms. Kaynor filed a claim for wrongful death and personal injury against Nicholas’s divorced parents, Bruce Farline and Karen Dahl-Green. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Nicholas’s parents, concluding that the family car doctrine did not apply because (1) there was no evidence that Ms. Dahl-Green owned, maintained, or provided the vehicle driven by Nicholas, (2) Nicholas resided…