UNITED SERVICES AUTO. ASS'N v. WEBB

Record No. 860237.

369 S.E.2d 196 (1988)

UNITED SERVICES AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION v. Alice Elizabeth WEBB, Administratrix of the Estate of Sharon Lee Cooper.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman A. West (Godard & West, Fairfax, on briefs), for appellant.

Jerry M. Phillips (Whitestone, Phillips, Brent, Young & Merril, P.C., Fairfax, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


WHITING, Justice.

We granted this appeal to determine whether a provision in a family automobile liability policy "to pay on behalf of the insured all sums which the insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages because of ... bodily injury, sickness or disease, including death resulting therefrom" required an insurance company to pay punitive damages, in addition to compensatory damages, awarded in an action for wrongful death brought against an insured...

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