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

No. S-9257.

19 P.3d 588 (2001)

Karel SHAW, Appellant, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANIES, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

March 16, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Artus, Artus & Choquette, P.C., Anchorage, for Appellant.

Joe M. Huddleston, Hughes, Thorsness, Powell, Huddleston & Bauman, LLC, Anchorage, for Appellee.

Before FABE, Chief Justice, MATTHEWS, EASTAUGH, BRYNER, and CARPENETI, Justices.


OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Karel Shaw was sitting in her Ford Thunderbird when Patrick Murphy leaned from his pickup truck and shot her six times, leaving her a quadriplegic. Because Shaw's damages far exceeded the limits of Murphy's automobile insurance policy, Shaw sued her own insurance carrier, State Farm, seeking coverage for "bodily injury ... caused by accident arising out of the operation, maintenance[,] or...

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