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Idaho Auto Insurance & Crash Law Case Authority Library
This issue-organized authority index collects primary Idaho insurance sources and leading appellate decisions for automobile coverage and crash-law research.
Current Idaho appellate authorities
- Pena v. Viking Insurance Co. (2022): minimum-limits UIM coverage can be illusory when policy definitions and offsets eliminate meaningful protection.
- Gearhart v. Mutual of Enumclaw (2016): Idaho stacking analysis turns on the policy language and enforceability of anti-stacking provisions.
- BrunoBuilt, Inc. v. Auto-Owners Insurance Co. (2024): current Idaho framework for plain meaning, ambiguity, and insurance-policy interpretation.
- Christmann v. State Farm (2023): consent-to-settle and subrogation defenses require actual prejudice where the insurer claims impairment of subrogation rights.
- Jackson v. Crow (2019): explains Idaho’s no-direct-action rule and the judgment-first path to any policy-authorized action against a liability insurer.
- Shelstad v. Pacific Life Insurance Co. (2026): current Idaho Supreme Court authority distinguishing the special agent-client duty recognized in procurement cases from duties owed merely because an insurer issued a policy.
This authority library is curated rather than exhaustive. Current statutes, the actual policy, and the latest controlling Idaho appellate decisions remain necessary for issue-specific reliance.
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Official Sources
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