Hopkins v. Coincon

1,EDWARD A. DUFRESNE, JR., Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Allstate Insurance Co., defendant-appellant, from a $19,920.72 judgment in favor of Henry Hopkins, plaintiff-appellee, in this three car rear-end collision case. For the following reasons we assign 50% of the fault in this accident to Allstate’s insured, thus reducing its share of the judgment by one half to $9,960.36.

The underlying facts are as follows. Henry Hopkins was stopped in traffic on an interstate highway. He testified that he was struck from behind by a car driven by Loretta Quigley, Allstate’s insured. When hit he said…