Definity Insurance Company brought a motion to be added as a statutory third party under s. 258(14) of the Insurance Act after denying coverage to the defendant driver.
The court granted the request to add Definity as a statutory third party.
However, the court declined to order that the coverage issue be tried separately after the main negligence trial, finding such an order premature while pleadings remained open.
The court also declined to make an advance ruling precluding the jury from hearing about Definity's third-party status, leaving that determination to the trial judge.
