Cooperstein v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that victim’s estate could not recover both liability and UIM benefits under the same policy after a single-car accident
• reiterating prior holdings and finding that set-off language in insurance policy did not create affirmative right to recover both liability and UIM benefits from the same policy in a similar situation
• multiple vehicle accident, but exclusion upheld to avoid conversion of UIM benefits to liability benefits because there was only one tortfeasor
• multiple vehicle accident, but exclusion upheld to avoid conversion of UIM benefits to liability benefits because ther e was only one tortfeasor
• estate of wife killed while riding as passenger in car operated by insured/husband could not recover underinsurance benefits after collecting benefits pursuant to liability provision of insured/husband’s multivehicle policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).