State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Dowdy

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• holding that parents who witnessed their fatally wounded child were not injured \in the same accident\ as the child but rather \were injured as a result of the death of their daughter in an accident\
• \[I]t seems plain that the 'in the same accident' language of the policy cannot reasonably be construed to cover the Dowdys' NIED claim.\
• “[A]mbiguities only exist when there are two or more reasonable interpretations of particular policy language.”
• \[I]t seems plain that the `in the same accident' language of the policy cannot reasonably be construed to cover the Dowdys' NIED claim.\
• \To conclude that either Barbara or Asa Dowdy were injured 'in the same accident' with [their daughter] would stretch the meaning of that phrase beyond any generally accepted usage.\
• \[It is not possible to say that all plaintiffs with NIED claims that are valid under Alaska law are necessarily injured in the same accident as their injured relatives.\

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