Overfield v. Ohio Casualty Insurance

NEALON, J.,

Defendant Ohio Casualty Insurance Company has appealed an under-insured motorist (UIM) arbitration award rendered on July 2, 1998, and has raised the following two issues of apparent first impression which have not yet been addressed by an appellate court in Pennsylvania. First, in an accident involving multiple plaintiffs who have amicably rationed the tort-feasor’s liability insurance limits which were interpleaded into court, may the UIM insurer claim a credit for the tort-feasor’s entire policy *550limits rather than the distributive amount actually received by the plaintiff?…