Lowing v. Allstate Insurance

OPINION

MARTONE, Justice.

We are asked to decide whether an unidentified accident-causing motorist is “uninsured” within the meaning of the Uninsured Motorist Act, A.R.S. § 20-259.-01, and thus whether an insurance policy that does not provide coverage for bodily injury caused by such motorists, unless physical contact occurred between the motorist and the insured, fails to comply with the statute. We answer both of these questions in the affirmative and therefore overrule our previous rulings to the contrary in Balestrieri v. Hartford Accident & Indem. Ins. Co., 112 Ariz. 160, 540 P.2d 126…