Bentley v. Grange Mutual Casualty Insurance

Lazarus, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Grange Mutual Casualty Insurance Company (“Grange”), appeals from a judgment of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas declaring that plaintiffs-appellees, Kendall R. Bentley, Herman Keith Bentley, Jr., April M. Beckley, and Tracy L. Myers are entitled to underinsured motorist coverage. We affirm for the reasons that follow.

On March 3, 1988, Millard Scott Bentley died while a passenger in a motor vehicle negligently operated by Todd Tekip. Millard was survived by his father Herman, his mother Darlene, and his four brothers and sisters, the appellees…