Legal Opinion

Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Co. v. Federated Mutual Insurance Co.

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided June 1, 2000No. 98-1988PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CARTER, Justice.

Federated Mutual Insurance Company (Federated Mutual), who is the uninsured motorist insurer of the employer of Thomas Peterson, appeals from a declaratory judgment establishing that its uninsured motorist coverage extended to additional insureds, Thomas Peterson and his wife, Holly, because Thomas’s employer, as named insured, failed to make a valid declination of uninsured motorist coverage as to any class of insureds. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company (Preferred Risk), an uninsured motorist insurer of the Petersons, whose coverage is excess to Federated Mutual’s…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Krause v. KrauseSupreme Court of Iowa · 1999
  2. Roger L. Williams and Pamela S. Williams v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1993

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Hlasnick v. Federated Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 2000
  2. Lee v. Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 2002
  3. Preferred Risk Insurance Co. v. CooperSupreme Court of Iowa · 2002
  4. Ringelberg v. EMC Insurance Group, Inc.Supreme Court of Iowa · 2003

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