CRABTREE v. STATE FARM INS. CO.

No. 93-C-0509.

632 So.2d 736 (1994)

Stephen CRABTREE and Debra Sue Crabtree v. STATE FARM INSURANCE CO.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 28, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Madeleine M. Landrieu, Robert J. David, Gainsburgh, Benjamin, Fallon, David & Ates, New Orleans, for applicant.

David J. Mithcell, Dan R. Dorsey, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, Stephen N. Elliott, Bernard, Cassisa, Saporito & Elliott, Metairie, for respondent.


KIMBALL, Justice.*

We granted certiorari to consider whether a wife's mental anguish suffered upon witnessing an injury to her husband constitutes a separate bodily injury under an automobile insurance policy thereby entitling the wife to her own per person policy limit subject to the aggregate per accident limit. We conclude the wife's mental anguish constitutes "bodily injury" within the meaning...

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