COVEL v. RODRIGUEZ

No. 105,942.

272 P.3d 705 (2012)

2012 OK 5

Carolyn Joan COVEL, Individually, and as Personal Representative of the Estate of H.K. Covel, Deceased, Tonni Covel, Toby Keith Covel, and Tracy Kaye Covel, Appellees, v. Elias A. and Pedro RODRIGUEZ, d/b/a Rodriguez Transportes and Republic Western Insurance Company, an Arizona Corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

January 31, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell L. Mulinix , Armando J. Rosell and Joseph K. Goerke , Mulinix Ogden Hall Andrews & Ludlam, P.L.L.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Appellees.

Clyde A. Muchmore , Mark S. Grossman , Jan E. Singelmann , Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, OK for Appellants.*


EDMONDSON, J.

¶ 1 This is a wrongful death action in which plaintiffs asserted that defective brakes on the bus owned by Elias A. and Pedro Rodriguez (defendants) caused the death of their decedent, H.K. Covel. Covel was traveling northbound on the inside lane of I-35 when he lost control of his pickup truck and crossed the median and entered the southbound lanes of traffic. Defendants' bus was traveling in the outside southbound lane, and Covel's pickup and...

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