The appellate court concluded that the auto insurer was not estopped from asserting that the rental car company was not its insured even if it had charged the rental company a deductible when it paid the rental company for damage to its property caused by the named insured driver and made statements indicating that it was treating the payment as a first-party payment and therefore, the rental car company's claims against the insurer were barred by the direct action rule.
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