State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia

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• finding that “payments made by the insurance company under the policy are not payments made by or on behalf of the uninsured motorist-tortfeasor, and do not affect the uninsured motorist’s liability to pay the damages recovered in the lawsuit against him.”
• \[P]ayments made by the insurance company under the policy are not payments made by or on behalf of the uninsured motorist-tortfeasor. . . .\
• workers’ compensation carrier not entitled to set off UM payments, because made under contractual obligation rather than as tort damages
• uninsured motorist benefits “do not discharge . . . the liability of the uninsured motorist and cannot be pleaded in defense of an action by the injured party against the uninsured motorist”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).