BRATTON ESTATE OF SLONE v. SELECTIVE INS.

Record No. 141358.

776 S.E.2d 775 (2015)

Karen Slone BRATTON, Administrator of the ESTATE OF Richard Linwood SLONE v. SELECTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 17, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank K. Friedman , Roanoke ( Michael P. Gardner ; Neal S. Johnson ; Roanoke, Woods Rogers , on briefs), for appellant.

C. Kailani Memmer (Glenn Robinson & Cathey, on brief), Roanoke, for appellee Selective Insurance Company of America.

No brief filed on behalf of appellees Selective Way Insurance Company, Tracie Dowell Nininger, Haulers Insurance Company, Inc., First Liberty Insurance Corporation, Jeffrey Scott Dupree , S. R. Draper Paving Company, and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Charlottesville.

Present: LEMONS, C.J., GOODWYN, MIMS, McCLANAHAN, and KELSEY, JJ., and LACY and MILLETTE, S.JJ.


In this appeal we determine that a road construction employee was (1) "getting out of" the dump truck he was operating and (2) "using" a pickup truck as a safety vehicle, as those terms are used in a motor vehicle insurance policy to establish insurance coverage.

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