{"id":1818,"date":"2013-07-24T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:50","slug":"u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-underinsurance-motorist-coverage-wehrle-v-cincinnati-ins-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-underinsurance-motorist-coverage-wehrle-v-cincinnati-ins-co\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Underinsurance Motorist Coverage; Wehrle v. Cincinnati Ins. Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heike Wehrle and Robert Wehrle were severely injured in an auto crash with a drunk driver who had minimal insurance coverage.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The Wehrles had an underinsured motorist insurance policy with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinfin.com\/\">Cincinnati Insurance Co<\/a>. that paid the difference between their $1 million coverage limit and the $200,000 that they received from the at-fault driver.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Wehrles sued Cincinnati claiming that they were entitled to the full $1 million of underinsurance rather than $800,000, which was the difference between the $1 million provided by Cincinnati and the $200,000 provided by the insurance company for the tortfeasor drunk driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Wehrles were driving their sport-utility vehicle in Kane County, Ill., in December 2010.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They were hit by a drunk driver, Eric Barth.<span>\u00a0<\/span>The Wehrles were severely injured and their medical expenses and damages far exceeded the policy limits of either Barth\u2019s insurance or their own underinsurance policy.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-of-appeals-affirms-underinsurance-motorist-coverage-wehrle-v-cincinnati-ins-co\/#more-1818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heike Wehrle and Robert Wehrle were severely injured in an auto crash with a drunk driver who had minimal insurance coverage.\u00a0 The Wehrles had an underinsured motorist insurance policy with Cincinnati Insurance Co. that paid the difference between their $1 million coverage limit and the $200,000 that they received from the at-fault driver.\u00a0 The Wehrles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,5,19,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-accidents","category-car-accidents","category-insurance-claims","category-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms Underinsurance Motorist Coverage; Wehrle v. 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