Petition by defendant for discretionary review pursuant to G.S. 7A-31 allowed 22 July 1999 for the limited purpose of entering an order remanding the case to the North Carolina Court of Appeals for a decision consistent with this Court’s decisions in Progressive Am. Ins. Co. v. Vasquez, 350 N.C. 386, and Piazza v. Little, 350 N.C. 585.