DEPINA v. SAFETY INSURANCE CO.


419 Mass. 135 (1994)

FAUSTA DEPINA vs. SAFETY INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Ronan for the plaintiff.

Alice Olsen Mann (Karyn T. Hicks with her) for the defendant.

Theodore F. Riordan & Kenneth Latronico, for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


WILKINS, J.

This is the first of three cases that we decide today involving underinsured motorist coverage under a Massachusetts automobile insurance policy. We hold that, where a household member has her own motor vehicle insurance policy, providing coverage as to a vehicle insured in her name and also providing underinsurance coverage in an amount ($20,000/$40,000) in excess of the compulsory limits for bodily injury to...

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