Fred took his friend, Mary, out to dinner on her birthday. While driving Mary ho

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Fred took his friend, Mary, out to dinner on her birthday. While driving Mary home, Fred became ill and asked Mary to drive. While driving Fred's car, Mary negligently injured another motorist when she failed to top at a red light.

Fred has an auto insurance policy with a liability insurance limit of $250,000 per person for bodily injury liability. Mary has a similar auto insurance policy with a liability limit of $100,000 per person.

1) If a court awards a liability judgment of $100,000 against Mary, how much, if any, will each insurer pay? Explain your answer.

Explanation / Answer

Answer :  Fred's policy will pay $ 1,00,000 and Mary's policy will pay nothing in this case .

Explanation :

Mary is covered under her policy . Here in this case Mary is driving Fred's Car (i.e Non Owned Car ) with the permission of the car owner. Therfore she is also covered under the Fred's policy .

Fred's policy is primary, and Mary's policy is excess.

Mary's policy will pay here only when Fred's policy limits gets finished.

Thus Fred's policy will pay $ 1,00,000 and Mary's policy will pay nothing in this case

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