Safe Auto Insurance Co. v. Farm Bureau Insurance Co.

OPINION ON REHEARING

ROBB, Judge.

Case Summary and Issues

In Safe Auto Ins. Co. v. Farm Bureau Ins. Co., et al., 856 N.E.2d 156 (Ind.Ct. App.2006), we concluded that Indiana law required Safe Auto to cover the owner of a vehicle insured by it for vicarious liability and that misrepresentations made by the insured did not hinder the coverage. Safe Auto has petitioned for rehearing, raising the following issues:

1. Whether we improperly held that “an Indiana insurance statute is bound to employ an outside state’s broader definition of vicarious liability, rather than that of the state where the law…