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· 12/16/1999

McKinney v. Allstate Insurance

Citations

  • 722 N.E.2d 1125
  • 188 Ill. 2d 493
  • 243 Ill. Dec. 56
  • 1999 Ill. LEXIS 1629

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that similar language was “not ambiguous and clearly limit[ed] all claims arising out of [person’s] death to a single [per person] limit”
  • holding a limitation on damages arising out of bodily injury to one person involved in an accident applies to all claims arising from the death of that person
  • finding that the limitation of liability clause in the policy was not ambiguous and clearly limited all plaintiff’s survival and wrongful-death claims arising out of the insured’s death to a single [per person] limit
  • overruling Stearns because the court \found an ambiguity where none existed\
  • overruling Stearns because the court “found an ambiguity where none existed”
  • “per person” limit of liability clause “clearly limited” all claims arising out of the decedent’s death to a single per person limit

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Judges: Rathje

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