Levine v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

Majority: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, DANA, ALEXANDER, and LEVY, JJ.

Dissent: RUDMAN and CALKINS, JJ.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] We are called upon here to determine whether Maine’s uninsured/underin-sured vehicle coverage laws require un-derinsured vehicle policies to supplant available tortfeasor insurance coverage that is not timely sought by the injured insured. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Ken-nebec County, Marden, J.) concluding that Nicole Levine, who was injured by the driver of an underinsured vehicle, was entitled to…