Rental cars are not covered by the employer’s policy
An employee was injured when the vehicle rented a car for him by his employer is not insured for the purposes of uninsured underinsured motorist coverage of employer contributions automobile insurance business, the Court of Appeals decided.
On this judgement, the Court found that Minnesota does not have the right to request that a commercial automobile insurance had no offer (UM) or underinsured (UIM) coverage of motorists on car rentals.
He and his wife continued commercial exploitation of his employer automobile insurance Carrier, as well as their own cars for Carrier UIM benefits.
A Ramsey County District Court, the judge finds that the claimant has the right to primary education UM-UIM, in the context of business of the employer, auto insurance, because they were insured under the policy, and because the car was an “auto coverage” under Minn. Stat SEC. 60A.08, SubD. 12 (2002).
But the Court of Appeals vice-versa.
“[W] e concluded that the automotive trade had no policy does not offer underinsured motorist coverage on [him], had not been” secured “under the policy or the use of a motor vehicle, in accordance with the definition of politics, “Wrote Judge Jill FLASKAMP Halbrooks.
The 11-page decision, Turner v. Mutual Casualty Insurance Company Service, Minnesota, is a lawyer No. CA-674-03.
Minneapolis lawyer Theodore J. Smetak, represents the communication automobile insurance Carrier said that the case of Minnesota is really on the system of insurance, damage to pay for car rentals. “This is a decision of first impression,” he pointed out.
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