Columbia National Insurance agreed to pay $10.5 million to resolve claims stemming from an incident involving a man driving under the influence of prescription medication when he hit a family walking in the parking lot of a Gainesville Walmart.

The defendant driver, who was in a company vehicle at the time, was subsequently hit with an $11.5 million jury verdict, but Columbia—which initially refused to defend him in court—maintained it was not responsible for paying the judgment.

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