Park v. Safeco Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• observing the absence of a “real or actual controversy” between plaintiff and insurer when plaintiff has no contractual relationship with insurer
• rejecting an injured motorist's attempt to proceed against the UM carrier in the first instance without filing the initial tort suit against the at-fault, uninsured driver
• rejecting an injured motorist's attempt to proceed against the UM carrier in the first instance without filing the initial tort suit against the at-fault, uninsured driver
• stating a plaintiff is not a party to the tortfeasor's liability insurance policy and has \no primary standing to litigate a dispute between the insured [tortfeasor] and insurer until and unless [the plaintiff] establishes liability against the [tortfeasor]\
• \[N]o right to recover can accrue to plaintiff against [the] insurance company until and unless [an insured driver] becomes liable to pay.\
• Courts generally decline to pronounce a declaration wherein the rights of a party are contingent upon the happen ing of some event which cannot be forecast and which may never take place.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).