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

Nos. S-12687, S-12698.

192 P.3d 994 (2008)

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. Asa DOWDY and Barbara Dowdy, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 26, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Waggoner, Law Offices of Paul Waggoner, Anchorage, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee State Farm.

Jonathon A. Katcher, Pope & Katcher, Anchorage, for Appellees/Cross-Appellants Asa and Barbara Dowdy.

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

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Additional per-person limits in an underinsured motorist policy are available to persons who are injured "in the same accident" as another person. The question in this case is whether this language encompasses parents who suffered severe emotional distress — including physical manifestations — upon viewing their daughter's body in the hospital after an automobile accident. We hold that it does not because ...

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