United States Fourth Circuit

Insurer was not entitled to summary judgment in its action for a declaration that an automobile policy did not provide underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage, where the insurer's presentation of a UIM form to its insured was not a "meaningful offer" of coverage.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2002
• Decided 05/31/2002
• Published 05/31/2002

Judges

• Before WILKINS, TRAXLER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stuart Wesley Snow, Dusenbury, Snow & McGee, P.A., Florence, South Carolina, for Defendants-Appellants.  John Robert Murphy, Murphy & Grantland, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Plaintiff-Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  E. Raymond Moore, III, Murphy & Grantland, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, for Plaintiff-Appellee.