State Farm Mutual Insurance Company v. Kuharik

How courts have described this case

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• punitive damages not properly awarded pursuant to UM coverage when loss caused by unknown driver
• “If the insurer, even after judgment and payment, should discover the identity of the tortfeasor, it is of course subrogated to the plaintiff’s rights, but the plaintiff has in no meaningful sense either served or obtained a judgment against the tortfeasor by his John Doe action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).