Hartbarger v. Country Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he insureds had received the protection of the mandatory uninsured motorist coverage statute through their primary automobile liability policy and were thus not left without the relief anticipated by that law.”
• “[T]he insureds had received the protection of the mandatory uninsured motorist coverage statute through their primary automobile liability policy and were thus not left without the relief anticipated by that law.”
• “It does not give us the authority to rewrite the unambiguous provisions of the umbrella policy in order to expand the maximum coverage afforded to the plaintiff, and we will not do so.”
• excess liability policy limited to excess liability coverage, which does not include uninsured motorist coverage
• “It does not give us the authority to rewrite the unambiguous provisions of the umbrella policy in order to 25 expand the maximum coverage afforded to the plaintiff, and we will not do so.”
• “In Illinois, umbrella policies and primary auto policies are distinct policies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).