Court Opinion

ID: 9936692
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:58:32.940944+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:32:39.385617
License: Public Domain

I concur fully with the main opinion, based on the facts at issue. The estate of Lisa Gale Tamms never was legally entitled to recover damages from Doyle Coultas, the uninsured motorist. The cause of action that accrued in Tamms's favor against Coultas did not survive her death; thus, her estate, as the plaintiff in the action for UM benefits, was, from its inception, not entitled to recover damages from Coultas. I express no opinion as to what might be the proper analysis in a case in which an action for UM benefits is filed before the insured dies.