Prutzman v. Armstrong

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• offsetting actual recovery would furnish no incentive for plaintiffs to seek adequate settlement from their own insurers, because they could force the fund to pay the difference between the settlement and the actual value of the claim
• offsetting actual recovery would furnish no incentive for plaintiffs to seek adequate settlement from their own insurers, because they could force the fund to pay the difference between the settlement and the actual value of the claim
• availability of alternate source of recovery places plaintiff’s claim outside definition of “covered claim” because it is not “unpaid”
• no collection from the fund where uninsured coverage is identical to the policy limits of the insolvent insurer
• no collection from the fund where uninsured coverage is identical to the policy limits of the insolvent insurer
• settlement for less than pohcy Hmits not exhaustion within meaning of Washington’s guaranty statute

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