Legal Opinion
Kluiter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided December 23, 1987No. 86-1047PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHULTZ, Justice.
This appeal from a declaratory judgment action involves a motor vehicle insurance policy providing underinsured motorist coverage. The dispositive issue is whether an exclusion denying coverage to an insured occupying a vehicle owned by the insured but which is not insured under the policy in question is enforceable. The trial court held the exclusion effective and denied the insured this coverage. We affirm.
On August 10, 1982, LaVern Kluiter and his wife Myrna were injured by an underin-sured motorist, Michael Buss, while riding their motorcycle. After settling with Buss and…
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