Another Planet Entertainment, LLC v. Vigilant Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the claimant might not be able to fully exhaust one of the tortfeasors’ policy limits if that tortfeasor was less liable relative to the other defendants
• noting that identical policy language is common in the insurance industry and holding that it unambiguously requires exhaustion of a tortfeasor’s policy limit before UIM coverage is available
• collecting cases holding the underinsurer may always credit the full amount of the tortfeasor's liability coverage against the insured's damages
• stating the Legislature’s “UIM mandate was designed to protect the public. . . .”
• collecting cases that hold that exhaustion clauses are unenforceable as against public policy
• stating the Legislature's \UIM mandate was designed to protect the public. ...\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).