Case ID: so2d_861/html/0400-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MOORE, Chief Justice. JOHNSTONE, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ex parte Edward HEALY and Juanita Healy. (In re Juanita Healy and Edward Healy v. Marcella Medlock and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company).
    1020282.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    April 25, 2003.
    C. Blake West and Richard L. Collins, Cullman, for petitioners.
    Hugh C. Harris of Bland, Harris & McClellan, P.C., Cullman, for respondent State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.
   MOORE, Chief Justice.

The petition for the writ of certiorari is denied. In denying the Healys’ petition, this Court does not wish to be understood as approving or disapproving the holding by the Court of Civil Appeals to the effect that the Healys’ “procedural default” in pursuing their claim against the estate of the underinsured motorist “prevented the Healys’ recovery” against the underin-sured-motorist insurance carrier itself. See State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Griffin, 51 Ala.App. 426, 286 So.2d 302 (1973); and State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Lambert, 291 Ala. 645, 285 So.2d 917 (1973). In petitioning this Court, the Healys did not seek review of the holding in favor of the underinsured-motorist insurance carrier.

WRIT DENIED.

HOUSTON, SEE, LYONS, HARWOOD, WOODALL, and STUART, JJ., concur.

JOHNSTONE, J., concurs specially.

JOHNSTONE, Justice

(concurring specially).

While I concur, I would prefer that our denial indicate more skepticism about the specified holding by the Court of Civil Appeals.