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Death of a Child

<span style="font-weight: 400;">An insurance company does not have a duty to defend or provide liability and underinsured motorist coverage to the family of a young child who died of hyperthermia after her father accidentally left her in the backseat of his truck while he was at work, the South Carolina Court of Appeals <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cardeath.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>.  </span>

COLUMBIA, S.C. – An insurance company does not have a duty to defend or provide liability and underinsured motorist coverage to the family of a young child who died of hyperthermia after her father accidentally left her in the backseat of his truck while he was at work, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled .

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