State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Guest

Cooper, Judge.

This interlocutory appeal arises out of an action brought by appellee to recover under the uninsured motorist provisions of an automobile insurance policy issued by appellant. Following the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion for summary judgment, we granted the appeal to determine whether the “physical contact” requirement of the uninsured motorist statute was satisfied in this case.

Appellee was injured in a single-vehicle accident which occurred when appellee lost control of the car she was driving after she struck a tire assembly lying in the center lane of a highway.…