Rein v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

PRESIDING JUSTICE GARCIA

delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion.

Justices McBride and R.E. Gordon concurred in the judgment and opinion.

OPINION

The circuit court granted summary judgment to defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in plaintiff Lauren Rein’s declaratory action seeking a judgment that she was entitled to insurance coverage following an injury-causing, hit-and-run accident. The circuit court held Rein’s action was barred by State Farm’s automobile policy provision requiring any arbitration or suit seeking uninsured motorist coverage be “commenced within…