FIDELITY & CAS. INS. CO. v. NATIONWIDE INS.

21791

278 S.C. 332 (1982)

295 S.E.2d 783

FIDELITY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v. NATIONWIDE INSURANCE COMPANY, Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, Concord General Mutual Insurance Company, John Ellis Merriman, Administrator of the Estate of Harry K. Watson, Jr., Mary Parson Gillespie, Administratrix of the Estate of Edward Parson, Jr., Larry Cornelius Moore, and Margaret Watson, Defendants, of whom Nationwide Insurance Company and Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Company are Appellants.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

September 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bruce Shaw and Thornwell F. Sowell, III, Nelson, Mullins, Grier & Scarborough, Columbia, for appellants.

Saunders M. Bridges, Jr. of Bridges, Bridges & Orr, Florence, for respondent.


September 28, 1982.

NESS, Justice:

This is an automobile insurance case. The appellant Nationwide asserts the trial court erred in granting declaratory judgment for respondent Fidelity. We disagree and affirm.

Edward Parson was fatally injured in an automobile accident on September 14, 1975 while a passenger in a vehicle driven by Harry Watson. Parson had uninsured motorist insurance with Nationwide. The automobile driven by Watson had previously been...

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