Progressive Forced to Pay $100,000 Minnesota Personal Injury Claim!
Dealing with an insurance company during a personal injury claim can be especially tricky, as this recent personal injury case reveals. Just yesterday, the Minnesota Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of nine-year-old Teddy Harrison, who sued his parents for brain injuries suffered in a car accident as a toddler in an effort to get Progressive to pay for his $100,000 claim. It turns out that Progressive refused to pay for the claim and would only agree to do so if the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that the boy could sue his parents for failing to install and maintain a car seat. With his parents support throughout the lawsuit, Harrison will now get the $100,000 claim taken care of by Progressive. Harrison’s personal injury lawyer Robert King described the case as not being about a boy suing his parents but rather trying to get an insurance company to do the right thing.
Harrison was only three years old in April 2001 when his life changed forever. The toddler flew out of his car seat when his mother’s SUV was hit by an uninsured driver and consequently suffered brain injuries that have left him permanently disabled. Harrison initially sued the car seat manufacturer Century Products Co. on the claim that the car seat was defective as its buckle could still click as locked while having a penny in it. The car seat manufacturer argued that the boy should have sued his parents, and he did just that with his parents’ support. Read more about this interesting personal injury case in this Pioneer Press story.
