Henson v. Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insured and insurer were contracting parties and their duties were established by contract, including duty of insurer to pay to extent of policy limits
• holding that the fact of settlement alone did not establish fault
• noting that settlement with third party alone did not establish entitlement to recover UIM benefits from insurer
• discussing calculation of judgment after jury decided only liability and damages
• there is no obligation to pay VIM benefits until a jury establishes the tortfeasor's liability and determines that damages exceed the underlying liability limits
• “And because the damages exceeded Contreras’ liability policy limits, Henson became entitled to the uninsured/underinsured motorist policy benefits, up to the policy limits.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).