Auto-Insurance Case Goes to Justices: Man Says His Car Insurance Company Should Make Up for Underinsured Driver

Feb 14, 2007 Feb. 15--If you need another reason to drive carefully on Ohio's icy roads, here it is: Your insurance company may not cover the difference between your policy limit and that of an underinsured driver who hit you. In a case heard by the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday, a lawyer for William Webb -- who was injured in the Logan County accident that killed his wife, Deborah Ann Webb -- argued that his insurance company should cover the difference between his policy limit and the amount paid by the other driver's insurer. Webb's insurance company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., says it doesn't owe him anything because his policy limit for uninsured and underinsured drivers is the same as the other driver's: $300,000.....

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