RUDD v. CALIFORNIA CASUALTY GEN. INS. CO.

Docket No. D009636.

219 Cal.App.3d 948 (1990)

268 Cal. Rptr. 624

H. MICHAEL RUDD, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA CASUALTY GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant and Respondent.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

April 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Jennings, Engstrand & Henrikson, Gerard Smolin, Jr., and Robert B. MacDonald for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Wingert, Grebing, Anello & Brubaker, Alan K. Brubaker and Lawrence W. Shea for Defendant and Respondent.


OPINION

FROEHLICH, J.

Uninsured motorist insurance coverage, first adopted in California in 1961,1 was designed to provide motorists injured by an uninsured tortfeasor minimum recovery from their own insurers. Such coverage applied only to the situation in which the negligent driver who inflicted injury on the insured person was completely without insurance. Failure to compensate the injured party also...

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