Southard v. Lira

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that “payments made by an insurance carrier under uninsured motorist coverage, [are not] payments which a tort-feasor can utilize to diminish the amount of his liability to the injured party”
• \The reasons generally given for the [collateral-source] rule are that the contract of insurance and the subsequent conduct of the insurer and insured in relation thereto are matters with which the wrongdoer has no concern and which do not affect the measure of his liability.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).