The Supreme Court remanded the following case back to the Court of Appeals to render a decision consistent with State Farm Mutual Auto Insurance Company v. Hodgkiss-Warrick, 413 S.W.3d 875 (2013). For what it’s worth and...
Read MoreThe following Court of Appeals decision ordered to be published on 9/12/2014 was modified by order on 9/26/2014. Since I do not have a copy of the earlier decision for purposes of comparision, I am hopeful that a reader might...
Read MoreCourt of Appeals has now held in a second published decision that the statute of limitations on a UIM claim begins to run when the insurer denies a claim for UIM coverage. I have addressed this issue of accrual multiple times...
Read MoreA heretofore sacred cow rule for uninsured motorist benefits that the uninsured motorist benefits (UM) follows the car was re-examined with a new rule emanating from the Kentucky Court of Appeals in Countryway Ins. Co. v....
Read MoreUninsured motorist benefits and priority between two policies; “other insurance” Countryway Ins. Co. v. United Financial Casualty Co. Warren Cir. Ct., Judge John R. Grise COA, PUB 1/24/2014, Presiding Judge Allison...
Read MoreCourt of Appeals held that State Farm’s contractual limitation in the automobile insurance policy requiring any action for underinsured motorist (UIM) benefits be brought within two years of the date of the injury or the...
Read MoreUM and UIM benefits are not available as a result of injuries caused by worker covered under exclusive remedy provisions of workers compensation statute. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Carlene Slusher,...
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