PIAZZA v. LITTLE

No. COA97-743.

497 S.E.2d 429 (1998)

John N. PIAZZA, individually and as Executor of the Estate of Edith May Piazza, Plaintiff, v. Michelle C. LITTLE and Annie Lou Perry, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ward and Smith, P.A. by Shelli Stoker Stillerman and John M. Martin, Greenville, for plaintiff-appellee.

Yates, McLamb & Weyher, L.L.P. by R. Scott Brown and Travis K. Morton, Raleigh, for unnamed defendant-appellant Automobile Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut.


HORTON, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether an umbrella policy which provides automobile bodily injury liability coverage up to $1,000,000, but which by its terms excludes uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, is subject to the provisions of N.C.Gen.Stat. § 20-279.21(b)(4) (1993 and Cum.Supp. 1997) and thus is required to offer UIM coverage.

I.

At all times relevant to this case, N.C.Gen. Stat. § 20-279.21(b)(4...

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