United Automobile Insurance Co. v. Reece

United Automobile Insurance Company (“United Auto”) appeals a final summary judgment providing automobile bodily injury coverage in favor of the appellee, Jack Marin. We reverse. The policy in question provides separate coverage for bodily injury and property damage liability. Therefore, United Auto is not collaterally estopped from contesting bodily injury coverage where it has paid the property damage liability claim of Marin.

Carlos Reece’s 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier was insured under a policy of automobile insurance with United Auto from October 6, 2006, through October 6, 2007. The…