United States v. Rathbun

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How courts have described this case

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• determining that an insurance provision that excluded coverage for a person attempting to avoid apprehension or arrest was unenforceable as a matter of public policy to the extent of insurance required under Georgia's compulsory insurance law
• determining that an insurance provision that excluded coverage for a person attempting to avoid apprehension or arrest was unenforceable as a matter of public policy to the extent of insurance required under Georgia’s compulsory insurance law
• striking down clause excluding liability coverage when insured was attempting to avoid apprehension or arrest
• noting that UM insurance is “for the benefit of the insured”
• “[limiting] exclusion in issue is unenforceable as against public policy only to the extent of insurance required by our compulsory insurance law at the time of the collision”
• compulsory insurance law does not establish public policy as to sums greater than those required by such law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).