Wilks v. Manobianco

OPINION

NORRIS, Judge:

¶ 1 The principal issue in this appeal is whether an insurance agent’s compliance with Arizona Revised Statutes (“A.R.S.”) section 20-259.01(B) (Supp. 2013), a statute that requires insurers to offer uninsured and un-derinsured motorist coverage to their insureds, bars an insured from asserting a professional negligence claim against an insurance agent for failing to obtain the under-insured motorist coverage the insured requested and the agent agreed to procure. As we explain, the statute does not bar such a claim.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND1

¶2 In 2001, Lesley Wilks…