Dean v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that payments from a tortfeasor’s insurer are not from a collateral source because they stem directly from the tortfeasor
• explaining that “a tortfeasor’s liability insurance cannot, by definition, constitute a collateral source”
• when facts are undisputed, issue of whether collateral source rule applies is reviewed de novo
• when facts are undisputed, issue of whether collateral source rule applies is reviewed de novo
• “[B]oth the collateral source rule and the UIM provisions were meant to avoid double recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).