U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2009

R.L.H. v. United Services Automobile Ass'n

R.L.H. v. United Services Automobile Ass'n
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · Decided May 12, 2009
327 F. App'x 714

R.L.H. v. United Services Automobile Ass'n

Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM **

“Covered persons” under the policy are “You or any family member.” A family member means “a person related to you by blood, marriage or adoption who is a resident of your household.” Excluded from coverage is bodily injury “for which a eov*715ered person becomes legally responsible to pay to a member of the covered person’s family residing in that covered person’s household.”

R.L.H. Ill, by virtue of California Civil Code section 43.1, was a person at the time of the accident and the infliction of the injury. But was he a family member resident in his father’s household? If he was, he was insured. By virtue of the exclusion his coverage did not extend to injury caused by his father. We interpret the policy consistently. If R.L.H. Ill had coverage, he was excluded from coverage for injury inflicted by a family member.

AFFIRMED.

This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.

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