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Arbitration, Statute Of Limitations, And Uninsured Motorist Endorsements, Leona M. Hudak
Arbitration, Statute Of Limitations, And Uninsured Motorist Endorsements, Leona M. Hudak
Cleveland State Law Review
Except in California, uninsured motorist statutes do not provide for any specified period within which the injured must file his damages. The uninsured motorist coverage clauses in policies have likewise been silent on the subject .A controversy has arisen as to whether the (usually) shorter negligence (tort) statute of limitations or the longer contract time limit governs. The controversy can be readily resolved: either the insurers express a specific time period in their uninsured motorist endorsements within which their injured insureds must file their complaints; or state legislatures should amend their uninsured motorist coverage statutes to contain such express provision, …
Uninsured Motorist Coverage, Henry A. Hentemann
Uninsured Motorist Coverage, Henry A. Hentemann
Cleveland State Law Review
This article is concerned with the insurance contract that provides this unique coverage and the legal problems that surround some of its major provisions. Many of these, however, are not yet fully resolved. This is due to the relatively early stage of its development and to the fact that existing decisions are too few and too fragmentary to permit a statement of controlling rules or principless Nevertheless, the problems will be posed and the principles of law and the cases will be explored. The article will concern itself with the right of subrogation, the arbitration clause and the applicable statute …