Guide · Insurance

Auto Insurance and Uninsured Motorist Claims: A Comprehensive Guide to Coverage, Stacking, Total Loss, and Bad Faith

15 U.S.C. § 1011

Type
Guide
Jurisdiction
National
Date
2024-04-02
Topic
Insurance

This guide covers personal auto insurance from the declarations page to the bad faith claim. Part I explains the coverages on a standard policy and how to read a declarations page. Part II covers uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, offset and excess states, stacking, rejection forms, and the consent-to-settle requirement. Part III covers first-dollar coverages, no-fault systems, and thresholds. Part IV covers vehicle damage, total loss valuation, diminished value, and appraisal. Part V covers exclusions, endorsements, and priority of coverage. Part VI covers claim handling duties, policy limits demands, and bad faith. Part VII covers liens, allocation, taxation, and the forums where these disputes are resolved.

Auto Insurance and Uninsured Motorist Claims: A Comprehensive Guide to Coverage, Stacking, Total Loss, and Bad Faith

Insurance > Auto Insurance and Uninsured Motorist Claims | Published 2 April 2024 - Updated 15 June 2025 | UpLaw - uplaw.us

How to use this guide

Auto insurance law is state law, and it varies more than practitioners in a single state usually appreciate. This guide sets out the structures that recur everywhere and flags the points where the state answer determines the outcome. Where a rule genuinely varies, that is said rather than papered over.

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