Stuart v. Insurance Co. of North America

GRANT, Presiding Judge.

Appellants are the estate of Myra S. Stuart and her surviving husband and three children. Appellee is Insurance Company of North America (INA), which issued an automobile liability policy containing underinsured motorist coverage applicable to the decedent at her death. This appeal presents the question of whether the 1981 amendment to A.R.S. § 20-259.01 (Laws 1981, ch. 224, § 1) required INA to offer additional underinsured motorist coverage up to the amount of the policy’s liability limits to decedent’s husband as of the effective date of those amendments, which was…