Heavens v. Laclede Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[i]f [the] employer had purchased insurance for the vehicle rather than self-insuring, the insurer would have paid under the uninsured motorist provision of that policy”
• stating that “[i]f [the] employer had purchased insurance for the vehicle 6 rather than self-insuring, the insurer would have paid under the uninsured motorist provision of that policy”
• self insurers must provide UM; holding otherwise would allow self insurers to circumvent statutory mandate for UM coverage
• “[I]t would be... unconscionable to allow an employer to totally avoid providing employees with uninsured motorist coverage by choosing to be self-insured.”
• self-insured employer was bound to provide uninsured motorist coverage to employee injured in the course of employment
• Self-insured employer was required to provide uninsured motorist coverage to employee because a self-insurer agrees to pay as if it had a vehicle liability policy and any policy would have included uninsured motorist coverage.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).