STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO. v. NGUYEN

No. 01-94-01024-CV.

920 S.W.2d 409 (1996)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INS. CO., Appellant, v. Ms. Hanh Thi Dinh NGUYEN, and Dr. Bay Van Nguyen, Individually and as Next Friend of His Deceased Infant Daughter, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

February 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack McKinley, Christine Kirchner, Houston, for appellant.

Allen H. Kline, Jr., Dana Andrew LeJune, Houston, for appellees.

Before COHEN, HEDGES and TAFT, JJ.


OPINION

COHEN, Justice.

We must decide whether the family member exclusion in appellees' automobile liability insurance policy applies and, therefore, limits the amount of their recovery. We must also decide whether their child, whose entire six-day life was spent in a hospital, was a "resident" of appellees' "household." We hold that the child was a resident of the household and that the family member exclusion limits appellees' recovery to $20,000. Therefore...

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