Plaintiff, Robert Kast, filed a complaint for declaratory judgment on May 20, 1980, alleging that defendant, Citizens Mutual Insurance Company, had wrongly denied liability on its insuranсe contract with plaintiff. Plaintiff alleged that defendant had insured plaintiff’s Chevrolet pickup truck, which was later confiscated by the Michigan State Police as a stolen vehicle, and that the insurance policy сovered loss *311 by theft. Plaintiff was a good faith purchaser of the truck for value and held a title issued on February 21, 1979. He had paid all premiums due on the insurance policy.
The insurance policy provided under coverage A, "Automobile Comprehensive” that defendant agreed:
"To pay fоr loss to the owned Automobile, except loss by collision, but including breakage of glass and loss caused by missiles, falling objects, direct contact with аnimals or birds, fire, theft, explosion, earthquake, windstorm, hail, water, flood, malicious mischief or vandalism, riot or civil commotion. The deductible amount, if shоwn in the Declarations, applies to each loss.”
"Loss” is defined in the insurance policy as "direct and accidental loss of or damagе to * * * the Automobile”. An "owned automobile” is defined as "the vehicle desсribed in the declarations”.
The trial judge found that plaintiff was covered by thе comprehensive provision, quoted above, because that section covered all losses except collision. He held that thеre had been no theft.
On appeal, defendant argues that the trial judgе essentially reformed the insurance contract by finding that coveragе was provided for loss from confiscation of the stolen vehicle. We disagree.
An insurer has a duty to clearly express the limitations on coverage in the insurance policy.
Vigilant Ins Co v Kambly,
The only explicit exclusion in plaintiff’s insurance policy was for "loss by collision”. Althоugh "an insurer is under no duty to specify every conceivable fact situation where coverage will not be provided”, the method which it should use to avoid ambiguity is to state "a general class of risks which are covered”.
O’Key v State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins Co,
We note that in two very similar cases, Illinois intermediatе appellate courts have reached the same result. In both
Blaylock v County Mutual Ins Co,
85 Ill App 3d 1042; 41 Ill Dec 351;
"anyone purchasing the comprehensive coverage offered by this policy would be justified in a belief that any loss except a loss by collision or any other specific exception made in the policy, would be covered by the comprehensive provision.”
We agree with the Illinois court’s reasoning.
Defendant also argues that coverage should be denied because plaintiff did not have an insurable
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interest in the vehicle. This issue has not been preservеd for appeal. In its trial brief, defendant specifically stated that whеther plaintiff had an insurable interest was not at issue in this case and was not the reason for defendant’s denial of coverage. An issue conceded by a party below may not be treated by this Court as open for review.
Ass’n of Hebrew Teachers v Jewish Welfare Federation,
Affirmed.