INSURANCE CO. OF NORTH AMERICA v. PATTON

No. 95-CA-0732.

665 So.2d 1312 (1995)

INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA v. Cheryl PATTON, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

December 14, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Autley B. Newton, Hammond, for Intervenor/Appellant/John O'Connor.

C. Gordon Johnson, Jr., Charles L. Chassaignac, IV, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans, for Defendant/Appellee/State Farm.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and PLOTKIN and MURRAY, JJ.


PLOTKIN, Judge.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether an injured guest passenger in an automobile involved in an accident may recover under his host driver's uninsured motorist (UM) insurance policy when the host driver is the sole cause of the accident.

On October 19, 1991, intervenor John O'Connor suffered injuries in an accident between the automobile in which he was a guest passenger and another automobile. When the accident occurred, O'Connor was riding...

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