Fowler v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

This case involves the liability of an insurer in excess of its policy limits for failure to accept a settlement offer within those limits. The appeal is from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in the amount of $4,000 plus an attorney fee of $750.

Earl J. Fowler, the plaintiff, on August 25, 1962, was involved in an accident in Butte, wherein an automobile he was driving struck and injured a pedestrian, one Charles Nau, at or near an intersection of Wyoming and Broadway streets. Fowler was insured with the defendant, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, hereinafter referred to as…