Westerfield v. LaFleur’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1986
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gernat v. Gernat · Burtrum v. Wheeler · Hendricks v. American Employers Insurance Co. · 24 Ill. App. 3d 583 - Allstate Insurance Co. v. Horn · Smith v. Girley
Most-quoted passages
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“"I. Damages for Bodily Injury Caused by Uninsured Automobiles. The company will pay all sums which the insured or his legal representative shall be legally entitled to recover as damages from the owner or operator of an uninsured automobile because of bodily injury, sickness or disease, including death resulting therefrom, hereinafter called `bodily injury' sustained by the insured, caused by accident and arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of such uninsured automobile ... * * * * * * II. Definitions. (a) `insured' means: (1) the named insured as stated in the policy (herein also referred to as the `principal named insured') and, while residents of the same household, the spouse of any such named insured and relative of either: (2) any other person while occupying an insured automobile ... (e) Occupying. The word `occupying' means in or upon or entering into or alighting from ...".”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there was not a sufficient relationship of time and distance between Angie and the bus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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