Legal Opinion
Question Submitted by the United States Court of Appeals v. Criterion Insurance
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided July 2, 1979No. 28472PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Groves
This is the answer to a question certified to us under C.A.R. 21.1 by the United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, in its number 77-1906. The question is: Assuming arguendo that the Colorado Automobile Accident Reparations Act, section 10-4-701 et seq., C.R.S. 1973 has application to the automobile accident involved, does that Act grant to the United States status as a third party beneficiary to the end that it may maintain the present action against Criterion Insurance Company? We answer in the affirmative.
We requested, and the referring court agreed, that our answer would be…
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