Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Dennis

Respondent, a minor, was seriously injured by an automobile driven by Nicholas Frederick Stay, an uninsured motorist. Contending that he was covered by the uninsured motorist clause of an automobile insurance policy issued by appellant, he filed with the American Arbitration Association his demand for arbitration. Acting through its present counsel, appellant replied to this demand by a letter in which it denied that respondent was an insured under the policy in question and contended that that issue was not one which it had agreed to arbitrate under the arbitration provision of the policy.…