April 10, 2024
The Connecticut Appellate Court has ruled that an auto insurer is not obligated to pay underinsured benefits to make up the difference between the coverage limits available and the lower amount its insureds actually receive from the at-fault driver’s insurer …
February 2, 2024
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a “regular use” exclusion in an auto insurance policy that prohibits underinsured motorist coverage for injuries involving a non-owned vehicle that an insured used regularly. In so doing, the state’s high court reversed a …
April 27, 2023
The removal of a vehicle from a multiple motor vehicle insurance policy, in which stacked coverage had previously been waived, does not require a renewed express waiver of stacked coverage under Pennsylvania’s Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law. The Pennsylvania Supreme …
December 8, 2022
An auto insurance policy that includes coverage for both uninsured and underinsured motorists does not require the insurer to pay the policy limits twice, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled. The high court reversed a ruling by a Richmond city judge …
August 8, 2022
A motorcycle driver’s signed waiver of underinsured motorists coverage in 2004 was still in effect 15 years later when he was in a tragic crash despite a phone conversation he had in 2014 with a representative for his direct insurer …
October 29, 2018
A Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled in favor of an insurer in a case involving an automobile accident in which the injured plaintiff sought to obtain underinsured motorist coverage under a policy held by the mother and stepfather of his …
March 30, 2015
Nothing is more exciting than reading the latest updates on insurance law, unless, of course, you can get updates on corporate law at the same time. Fortunately, there are two recent Louisiana cases where the outcome of insurance law issues …
April 4, 2014
In perusing judicial decisions, it is not unusual to discover answers to questions one never thought to ask. One such question is whether a forklift is a “motor vehicle” under uninsured/underinsured motorists (UM) statutes, and, if so, would the UM …
September 16, 2011
A Pennsylvania court has ruled that an exclusion in underinsured motorist coverage for injuries incurred while on a motorcycle applies to motorcyclists injured after being thrown off their bikes. An underinsured motorist coverage from Allstate contained an exclusion for injuries …