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

Docket: Yor-07-683, Yor-08-555

995 A.2d 651 (2010)

2010 ME 44

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Pramodh KOSHY et al. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Boston, Inc. v. Pramodh Koshy et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: May 25, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Haddow, Esq. (orally), Laura H. White, Esq., Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, LLP, Portland, ME, for Pramodh Koshy.

William J. Kelleher, Esq., Daniel I. Billings, Esq. (orally), Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Stevens, Waterville, ME, for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

David P. Silk, Esq. (orally), Susan Rockefeller, Esq., Curtis Thaxter Stevens Broder & Micoleau LLC, Portland, ME, for Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company of Boston, Inc.

James D. Poliquin, Esq. (orally), John R. Veilleux, Esq., Matthew T. Mehalic, Esq., Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, ME, for Scandent Group, Inc. and Scandent India.

John J. Wall, Esq., Kenneth D. Pierce, Esq., Erica M. Johanson, Esq. (orally), Monaghan Leahy, LLP, Portland, ME, for Pramodh Koshy.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, and MEAD, JJ.


SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] These related appeals center on a dispute regarding the ultimate responsibility for payment of damages arising out of a serious automobile accident in which the driver of a rented car was at fault. The parties' challenges to several judgments of the Superior Court (York County, Fritzsche, J.) require us to address the varying responsibilities of the rental company, the corporate renter, the individual employee who signed the rental...

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