Palisbo v. Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co., Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that \[t]he uninsured motorist policy is personal to the insured. This is what he bargained for[.]\
• refusing to allow anomaly; purpose, rather than literal reading, of statute controls
• refusing to allow anomaly; purpose, rather than literal reading, of statute controls
• where a tort-feasor is underinsured as to a particular policyholder of UIM insurance, the latter is entitled to recover under his policy based upon the amount he actually received from the tort-feasor’s insurance
• purpose of uninsured motorist statute is to encourage self-protection through voluntary insurance
• “The [UM] statute was clearly designed to enable the purchaser of [UM] insurance to assure himself and the members of his household of not less than the minimum protection provided for the general public in the financial responsibility law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).