Mendota Insurance Co. v. Ware Ex Rel. Ware

ALOK AHUJA, Judge.

Olivia Ware, by and through her uncle and next friend, Jackson Ware, appeals the circuit court’s grant of summary judgment to respondent Mendota Insurance Company in this declaratory judgment action concerning the interpretation of an automobile insurance policy issued by Mendota. Ware previously obtained a wrongful-death judgment awarding her $175,000 in damages against Mendota’s insured. Although Ware’s wrongful-death judgment is covered by the Policy, the parties dispute the amount of the Policy’s limits of liability for bodily injury coverage. Ware argues that, because…