HARTFORD INS. CO. v. HERTZ CORP.


410 Mass. 279 (1991)

572 N.E.2d 1

THE HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY vs. THE HERTZ CORPORATION & others (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 28, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. McCormack for the plaintiff.

D. Alice Olsen (Lauren B. Pillsbury with her) for The Hertz Corporation & another.

Charles M. Hughes, for Marcia Canter, was present but did not argue.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

We allowed an application for direct appellate review to decide whether The Hertz Corporation (Hertz), a motor vehicle rental company which insures its own vehicles, is required to provide underinsured motorist benefits to a customer who was injured while driving one of its vehicles. A judge of the Superior Court granted summary judgment in favor of Hertz pursuant to Mass. R. Civ. P. 56, 365 Mass. 824 (1974), reasoning that the statute in force at the...

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