IOWA MUTUAL INS. CO. v. McCARTHY

No. 96-1371.

572 N.W.2d 537 (1997)

IOWA MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., Appellee, v. Philip J. McCARTHY, Defendant, and Donna Rae Kelly, Individually and as the Administrator of the Estate of Leo J. Kelly, Deceased, and Amy Kelly, a Minor by Her Mother and Next Friend, Donna Rae Kelly, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

November 26, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Willson of Willson & Pechacek, P.L.C., Council Bluffs, for appellant.

Roy M. Irish of Patterson, Lorentzen, Duffield, Timmons, Irish, Becker & Ordway, L.L.P., Des Moines, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, ANDREASEN, and TERNUS, JJ.


TERNUS, Justice.

This appeal involves a dispute concerning liability insurance coverage for a wrongful death claim made by the appellant, Donna Rae Kelly, as administrator of the Estate of Leo Kelly and as next friend of Amy Kelly, against Philip J. McCarthy, an insured of the appellee, Iowa Mutual Insurance Company. Coverage turns on whether Leo Kelly was an employee of McCarthy at the time of Kelly's death, thereby triggering the employee exclusion contained in...

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