Friday, May 1, 2009

You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

The case involved an insured who was driving her automobile when it ran

out of gas. A friend of the insured drove her to a service station where they filled a gallon jug

with gasoline. While attempting to pour the gasoline from the jug into the tank of the car,

some of it spilled on the insured's feet and also on the friend from the waist down. The insured

used a towel from her car to catch the spilling gasoline and then, in an attempt to dispose of

the gasoline-soaked towel, ignited it with a cigarette lighter and threw it onto the ground.

When the friend saw the burning towel, she moved toward it in order to stamp out the fire, but

instead received substantial burns.

Almany v. Nationwide Ins. Co., 1987 WL 4745, cited in Allstate Ins. Co. v. Watts, 811 S.W.2d 883 (1991).

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