State Farm Automobile Insurance v. Cabuzzi

The plaintiff, State Farm Automobile Insurance Company, brought this petition for declaratory judgment for a determination of its obligation to provide uninsured motorist coverage under the policies of Joseph Cabuzzi, who died in an automobile accident in Acapulco, Mexico. The Superior Court (Bean, J.) approved a Master’s (Mayland H. Morse, Jr., Esq.) recommendation that the plaintiff be obligated to provide uninsured motorist coverage. We reverse.

The parties submitted the case to the court below on an agreed statement of facts. On September 15, 1978, the decedent and his wife, Joyce Cabuzzi,…