Harris Ex Rel. Freedman v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant assigns error to the trial court granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment and denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment. Defendant contends that Michelle K. Harris is not entitled to stack the three vehicles on her parents’ single policy because she is not the owner of the insured vehicles.

The decision of our Supreme Court in Sutton v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., 325 N.C. 259, 382 S.E.2d 759, reh’g denied, 325 N.C. 437, 384 S.E.2d 546 (1989), allows intrapolicy and interpolicy stacking of UIM coverage. In Sutton, the court held that the language of the…