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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 99-C-2573

LEE CARRIER AND HIS WIFE MARY BETH CARRIER Versus RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL, THIRD CIRCUIT, PARISH OF LAFAYETTE

LEMMON, Justice* This is an action against plaintiff's employer's commercial automobile insurer to recover damages under the uninsured/underinsured motorist (UM) coverage of the employer's policy. The principal issues are (1) whether the court of appeal erred in construing an exception to an exclusion as a basis for coverage under the policy; (2) whether plaintiff, who was injured while driving his own vehicle in the course and scope of his employment, qualified as an insured under the UM coverage of the employer's policy; and (3) if not, whether plaintiff qualified as an insured under the liability coverage of the policy and was therefore entitled to have UM coverage read into the policy.

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*Knoll, J., not on panel. Rule IV, Part II,

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