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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Supreme Court

Juan Michael Ramirez, Petitioner,

v.

Progressive Northern Insurance Company, Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2016-002312

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal From Laurens County R. Lawton McIntosh, Circuit Court Judge

Memorandum Opinion No. 2018-MO-024 Heard May 24, 2018 – Filed June 6, 2018

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Edwin L. Turnage, of Harris & Graves, PA, of Greenville, for Petitioner.

John R. Murphy, of Murphy & Grantland, PA, of Columbia, for Respondent. PER CURIAM: We granted Juan Ramirez's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the Court of Appeals in Ramirez v. Progressive N. Ins. Co., Op. No. 2016-UP-280 (S.C. Ct. App. filed June 8, 2016). We now dismiss the writ as improvidently granted.

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED.

BEATTY, C.J., KITTREDGE, HEARN, FEW and JAMES, JJ., concur.