Leibrand v. National Farmers Union Property & Casualty Co.

These combined claims were either filed in or removed to the United States District Court for the District of Montana by the plaintiffs to recover the limits of liability coverage provided by the defendants pursuant to contracts of automobile liability insurance. The defendants denied that policy limits were recoverable, based on exclusions within each of the respective policies which limited recovery by a household member to the “limits of liability required by law.” Pursuant to Rule 44, M.R.Civ.R, the United States District Court, in each case, certified the following question to this Court: