Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co v. Hatfield

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which reversed a summary judgment entered by the circuit court which had dismissed the claim of the Hatfields and upheld the exclusion for un-derinsured coverage as found in the Nationwide policy of insurance.

This case involves a question of insurance coverage arising from an automobile collision. The key question relates to the validity of excluding government-owned vehicles from underinsured coverage.

Nationwide frames the issues as follows: 1) that the Court of Appeals erred in voiding the plain language of the…