Belaire v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

GUIDRY, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm), appeals a judgment by the trial court which awarded plaintiffs the policy limit benefits, under the UM provision of their State Farm automobile insurance policy following an accident in which their son, Michael Belaire, Jr., was killed. Michael was an omnibus insured under the State Farm policy.

During the early morning hours of October 23, 1983, Michael Belaire, Jr. was operating his 1968 Harley Davidson motorcycle in a westerly direction on Troy Road in Iberia Parish. At the same time,…