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A sheriff’s deputy, was his own police vehicle after it was stolen by a man Jefferson at Christmas five years ago, a right to compensation for its personal auto insurance, Maine decided by the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court of Judicature Maine überhört least one judicial decision, a judgement that the former Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Pease was due money from the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Pease was injured, like Michael Montagna, 45, it was Pease in the department-Ford Explorer, he knocks on the ground, running on one of its legs and pull him after more than 50 metres. Pease was sent after Montagna’s Residenz Montagna, had asked the police trying to say for help dispatching, he thought someone had tried to poison him.
Pease, suffered serious injuries to his knee, was unable to obtain damages Montagna self-insurance or the Lincoln County policy, which is not provided by drivers schemes for workers wounded “on the job.”
Pease then sought money for its violations of his own car insurance, State Farm, which has also refused to pay. A firm action against the State was released later in Superior Court
But in a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of state last week überhört the lower court decided that the farm state free of any responsibility.
Michael village of gymnastics, a lawyer Pease, said the lower court had ruled that Pease’s State Farm policy prevents a resumption of him damages if a vehicle, namely the police vehicles unidentified, which was set up around him for regular use.
The Supreme Court has decided that once the vehicle was stolen, it was not more to allow regular use Pease’s Pease, could be available to uninsured drivers in its own policy, said the tour of the village .
“It was simply a stolen vehicle, and the decision said here, reports, in these circumstances,” said tour of the village.
The case is again in Lincoln County Superior Court Trial list.
Attorney Robert Hoy, State Farm, said it would be unfair to ask insurance companies to pay for liabilities government employees taken with government vehicles.
“The government should maintain violations of the use of these vehicles,” he said. “It is really not fair to distribute that kind of risk for companies that do not have a premium for them.
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