Court Opinion

ID: 9729791
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:48:59.956191+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:01.234732
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE UNDERWOOD, dissenting: Until the filing of this opinion, this court has consistently held that uninsured motorist coverages in several policies could be “stacked” only when those policies had been issued to the same person by the same company. (Morelock v. Millers’ Mutual Insurance Association (1971), 49 Ill. 2d 234; Glidden v. Farmers Automobile Insurance Association (1974), 57 Ill. 2d 330; Squire v. Economy Fire & Casualty Co. (1977), 69 Ill. 2d 167.) Today the court overrules Morelock and holds, for the first time, that the coverages in different policies issued to different people at different times may be added together despite the presence of clauses in those policies to the contrary. I thought Morelock was correctly decided, and I would adhere to it. MR. JUSTICE RYAN joins in this dissent.