Barbuto v. Peerless Insurance

The respondent, Peerless Insurance Company (Peerless), appeals an order of the Superior Court {Mangones, J.) granting summary judgment in favor of the petitioner, Leah Barbuto, in a declaratory judgment action to determine whether Peerless was entitled to reduce the petitioner’s underinsured motorist benefits by the amount she recovered in a settlement with an underinsured tortfeasor. We reverse.

The record supports the following. The petitioner was injured in an automobile accident caused by the driver of another vehicle. At the time of the accident, the petitioner was an insured under a…