Legal Opinion
Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Lake
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided July 2, 1991PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORE, Justice.
In this case we reexamine the lex loci delicti rule of Friday v. Smoot, Del.Supr., 211 A.2d 594 (1965). The appellee, Ben E. Lake, sued his uninsured motorist carrier, The Travelers Indemnity Company (“Travelers”), in the Delaware Superior Court as the result of an accident in Quebec, Cana da, between Lake and an unidentified motorist. Quebec law establishes a legal limit on tort recoveries, which is considerably below the limits of Lake’s coverage from Travelers. The insurance policy obligates Travelers to pay damages to Lake which he is “legally entitled to recover” from an…
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- Steigler v. Insurance Co. of North AmericaSupreme Court of Delaware · 1978
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