Day care’s insurer questions liability in boy’s death after family requests $1 million settlement
Three-year-old
An employee is accused of picking him up in the morning from his home, but failing to check whether he had gotten out of the van after parking. He was found dead inside the vehicle that evening.
Eleven days after his death, Hill's mother,
The insurance company pointed to an exclusion in Little Miracles' policy that allows it to deny coverage for claims involving a vehicle, the documents said. Hudson said the day care's auto insurer already paid its policy limit -- the amount of which was not disclosed -- to Myles' family, according to court documents.
Hudson Specialty also proposed that the employee who left Myles in the van "may not fall within the definition" of someone insured under the policy.
That employee,
Police investigating the case conducted an experiment to find out how hot the van may have been during the child's death. Officers found temperatures climbed to about 144 degrees, according to court documents.
The
The legal battle with the insurance company is not the only litigation Myles' family is involved with regarding the toddler's death. On
St. Charles is at the
Watts -- who was Myles' legal guardian -- also filed a document claiming Myles' father,
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