Legal Opinion
Lecours v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided January 6, 1995No. 93-558PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the Chittenden Superior Court declaring that plaintiff Patrick Lecours directed reduction of his uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM) coverage with defendant Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide) to the statutory minimum. We affirm.
On August 19, 1992, plaintiff Elizabeth A. Peters was severely injured when Lecours’s Bronco, which she was driving, was struck head-on by an oncoming vehicle whose driver had liability limits of only $20,000/$40,000, well below Peters’s damages from the accident. Lecours made a claim against Nationwide for the…
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