PROGRESSIVE SPECIALTY INS. CO. v. WIDNESS

No. C7-00-33.

635 N.W.2d 516 (2001)

PROGRESSIVE SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Kelly June WIDNESS, By and Through her parent and natural guardian Shelia WIDNESS, Respondent, Adonna Ermal Enyart, by and through her parents and natural guardians, Gordon and Dixie Enyart, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

November 21, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott A. Brehm, Scott A. Brehm & Associates, St. Paul, for appellant.

H. Patrick Weir, Jr., Leland F. Hagen, Leland Hagen Law Office, Ltd., Fargo, ND, for respondent.

Heard, considered and decided by the court en banc.


OPINION

LANCASTER, Justice.

In this case, we are asked to decide whether the Minnesota No-Fault Automobile Insurance Act requires that an insurer provide residual liability coverage to the child of a named insured when the child is not a named insured and is driving a vehicle not owned by anyone in the named insured's household, with permission of the vehicle owner. We conclude it does not.

On August 8, 1994, an uninsured vehicle owned by Melissa...

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