Miller v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance

The Court is presented with a petition that we review the Court of Appeals opinion in Miller v. U.S.F. & G. Insurance Co., 112 Idaho 955, 738 P.2d 425 (Ct.App.1987). With the petition is a well-written and persuasive supporting brief. We also have before us the scholarly well-written opinion from the Court of Appeals which makes it quite clear that the Court of Appeals, and likely the trial court as well, would have decided the case differently — solely a question of insurance contract interpretation— if Hammon v. Farmers Insurance Group, 107 Idaho 770, 692 P.2d 1202 (Ct.App.1984) was…