THIAC v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE

No. 89-CA-0104.

569 So.2d 1217 (1990)

Rachael THIAC v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 31, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Breland, Breland & Weatherly, Gulfport, for appellant.

Billy W. Hood, Robert W. Atkinson, Bryan Nelson Allen Schroeder Cobb & Hood Firm, Gulfport, for appellee.

Robert T. Gordon, Jr., Ann Camp, Heidelberg & Woodliff, Jackson, for amici curiae.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PRATHER and ANDERSON, JJ.,


PRATHER, Justice, for the Court:

This appeal involves uninsured motorist insurance law and presents the question of whether a guest passenger while occupying a vehicle involved in an accident, can also benefit from uninsured motorist insurance carried by the "named insured" on another vehicle not involved in the accident. Holding that the guest passenger failed to establish that the involved vehicle was underinsured under Mississippi's statutory definition, this Court...

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