White v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America

On January 7, 1980, plaintiff Alfred White was injured in an automobile accident as a result of the negligence of an uninsured motorist. Although plaintiffs’ insurance policy contained $500,000 aggregate single limit liability coverage for bodily injury, it provided only the statutorily required minimum limits of $15,000 for each person and $30,000 for each accident as uninsured motorist coverage. ORS 743.786(1) and ORS 486.011(7)(a) and (b). Plaintiffs sued defendants Safeco and their agents, seeking, inter alia 1 a declaratory ruling that defendants had an affirmative statutory duty to…