Legal Opinion
Countryway Insurance Company v. United Financial Casualty Insurance Company
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided August 25, 2016No. 2014-SC-000265-DGUnknownCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
JUSTICE HUGHES
This Court granted the motion for discretionary review by Countryway Insurance Company, a New York corporation, in its dispute with United Financial Casualty Company, 1 over how to apportion damages between the two, both insurers having pro vided uninsured motorist (UM) coverage to a passenger injured in an automobile accident in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In light of what it deemed mutually repugnant “other insurance” clauses in the two policies, the Warren Circuit Court ordered the companies to share the damages pro rata, in proportion to their respective…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Greenlaw v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Lamb-Weston, Inc. v. Oregon Automobile InsuranceOregon Supreme Court · 1959
- Oregon Auto. Ins. Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1952
- Coots v. Allstate Insurance Co.Kentucky Supreme Court · 1993
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