Legal Opinion
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Spotten
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided March 16, 1993No. 45A03-9205-CV-138PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STATON, Judge.
Pursuant to Ind. Appellate Rule 4(B)(6), this court granted a Petition for Interlocutory Appeal to address the following question of law: whether State Farm was entitled to summary judgment because injuries sustained by a policyholder who was shot by a passenger in an uninsured vehicle did not "arise out of the operation, maintenance or use of the uninsured vehicle."
We conclude that State Farm was entitled to summary judgment.
On February 17, 1991, Scott Spotten was driving his pickup truck in an easterly direction on Sibley Boulevard in Hammond, Indiana. As he paused at a…
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