OUELLETTE v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO.

No. 78236.

918 P.2d 1363 (1994)

Gerald OUELLETTE and Mae Ouellette, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied July 19, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Reinke, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

David D. Wilson, Oklahoma City, for appellee.


OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the risk carrier of UM1 coverage must answer in damages for the "grief and loss of companionship" of its insureds, occasioned by the wrongful death of their emancipated, adult son, even though in the distribution stage of an earlier wrongful-death action (by the decedent's surviving spouse) the plaintiffs-parents were denied, for lack of legal interest, any part of the recovery...

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