Dougherty v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Co.

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.*

*857Appealing the district court’s final judgment in this insurance dispute, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Gompany disputes the court’s conclusion that respondent’s voluntary intoxication was not an event of independent significance, that is, conduct that broke the causative tie between injuries she sustained and her use of a motor vehicle. Appellant also claims that injuries respondent sustained after leaving the vehicle, which was stuck in snow, did not arise out of the use or maintenance of the vehicle. Because we are required to apply no-fault law without…