South Carolina Insurance v. James C. Greene & Co.

Bell, Judge:

South Carolina Insurance Company seeks indemnity from its agents, James C. Greene and Company and Blane H. Lawson, for alleged negligence which caused it to pay a default judgment against its insured, Patricia Manning, in excess of policy limits. Greene and Lawson each raise the defense of imputed contributory negligence as a bar to the Insurance Company’s recovery against them. The circuit court granted the Insurance Company’s motion to strike the defense of imputed contributory negligence. Greene and Lawson appeal. We affirm.

Lawson, doing business as Jim Robertson Insurance…