Zimmerman v. Illinois Farmers Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• discussing distinction between damages and payment and noting insured entitled to \damages\ from tortfeasor, but \payment\ from UIM insurer
• defining “damages” as “a pecuniary compensation that may be recovered in the courts by a person who has suffered loss, detriment, or injury” and “payment” as “the fulfillment of a promise or the performance of an agreement”
• where parties agreed to submit \amount of payment which may be owing under this coverage\ to arbitration, insurer required to submit setoff and other issues
• insurer was not entitled to reduce an arbitration award by the amount an underinsured motorist paid to the insured because the arbitrator’s award was clear on its face and did not mention a setoff
• insurer was not entitled to reduce an arbitration award by the amount an underinsured motorist paid to the insured because the arbitrator's award was clear on its face and did not mention a setoff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).