Evans v. Medical Inter-Insurance Exchange

This appeal arises from a suit brought by a physician’s former patient to require the physician’s insurance carrier to pay her $8,000,000 of a $5,600,000 judgment that she had been awarded in a medical malpractice action against the physician. The trial court concluded that the insurance company’s “claims-made” coverage did not extend to the patient’s claim, granted the insurance company’s motion for summary judgment, and denied the patient’s cross motion for summary judgment. The patient appeals the grant of summary judgment, and the insurance company cross-appeals certain adverse rulings.…