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Maine uninsured-motorist law trumps policy language.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online - approximately 529 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Relying on its prior interpretations of Maine's uninsured-motorist law, the state's Supreme Judicial Court ruled that an insurance company unlawfully limited a father's damages when it denied recovery because his daughter, who died in a car crash, did not qualify as an insured under his uninsured-motorist policy. (Butterfidd v. Norfolk & Dedham Mut. Fire Ins. Co., No. Cum-03-223, 2004 WL 2187160 (Me. Sept. 30, 2004).)

Neither car involved in the collision that killed Gregory Butterfield's 21-year-old daughter was...

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