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The trial court concluded that plaintiffs’ four auto insurance policies were ambiguous as to whether they permitted stacking of their respective underinsured-motorist coverage limits.
Where the policies’ “limits of liability” sections, standing alone, unambiguously prohibited stacking of UIM coverage limits, subsequent policy references to “other insurance” meant different insurance companies and therefore did not create ambiguity as to the permissibility of UIM stacking.
Judgment is reversed and remanded.
Brown v. American Family Mutual Insurance Company (MLW No. 73109/Case No. SD35329 –7 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Lynch, J.) Appealed from Circuit Court, Oregon County, Allen, J. (Gary Brewer, Springfield, for appellant) (Dale Robert Engelbrecht, West Plains, for respondents)
