Dewart v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Bell, Judge:

This is an action in equity for reformation of an insurance contract. Angela W. Dewart seeks to include underinsured motorist coverage in her written contract of insurance with State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company as a remedy for State Farm’s alleged failure to comply with Section 1, Act No. 569, Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of South Carolina, Regular Session, 1978, 60 Stat. at Large 1668. That statute required automobile insurance carriers to offer their insureds optional underin-sured motorist coverage up to the limits of insured liability…