Cotton States Mutual Insurance v. Starnes

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “[sjtate law does not require a motorist to purchase uninsured motorist coverage” and noting that “[t]he policy behind uninsured motorist coverage is to protect the insured’s assets, not the public”
• describing victims of car accidents as “a new class of beneficiaries to automobile liability insurance contracts” in light of legislatively required liability insurance
• characterizing an “additional insured” under automobile liability insurance policy as a third party beneficiary
• characterizing an “additional insured” under automobile liability insurance policy as a third-party beneficiary
• \Mandatory liability insurance ... has the effect of creating two classes of third-party beneficiaries: additional insureds and the public.\
• “Mandatory liability insurance ... has the effect of creating two classes of third-party beneficiaries: additional insureds and the public.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).