Two insurance companies paid a total of $215,000 in settlements after a woman died months after she was injured in an accident involving her husband’s vehicle. According to Stephen F. Gerring of The Gerring Law Firm in St. Louis, the ...

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A Missouri woman whose daughter died in a vehicle crash is not entitled to underinsured motorist cover-age following the crash, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled June 4. The court unanimously held that Chelsea Seaton, the daughter of plaintiff Leslie Seaton, ...

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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, ...

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