American States Insurance v. Frost

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that in New Mexico, unlike other states, our “uninsured motorist statute includes underinsured motorist coverage as part of the uninsured coverage,” and that “[ujnderinsured and uninsured motorist coverage are not distinct options available for an additional premium”
• noting that NMSA 1978, Section 66-5-301 (Repl.Pamp.1994) equates uninsured and unknown motorists
• insurer was not required to pay uninsured motorist coverage when amount insured collected from underin-sured driver exceeded amount of uninsured motorist coverage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).