Palmer Ex Rel. Diacon v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

The defendant, Farmers Insurance Exchange, appeals a 9-3 jury verdict from the Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County, finding it liable for $50,000 under two uninsured motorist policies to cover a motorcycle accident in which David Alaric Palmer suffered head injuries.

Palmer was injured on June 10, 1984, when his southbound 750-cc motorcycle went off the east side of U.S. 89 approximately fifteen miles north of White Sulphur Springs, Montana. His family subsequently filed claims for $25,000 in uninsured motorist protection on each of two policies issued by the defendant, claiming that a…