Beal v. Allstate Insurance Co.

[¶ 1] This appeal presents questions related to a high-low settlement agreement — between a person injured in an automobile collision and an underinsured tortfeasor — and the interplay of that agreement with the injured party’s under-insured motorist insurance policy and Maine’s underinsured motorist coverage statute, 24-A M.R.S. § 2902 (2009).

[¶ 2] Patricia Ruth Beal, who was injured in an automobile collision, appeals from a summary judgment entered in the Superior Court (Washington County, Cud-dy, J.) in favor of her insurer, Allstate Insurance Company, concluding that, for purposes of her…