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Graham v. Travelers Insurance Company12/17/2002
circumstances).
UM coverage should extend to the same class of persons who are covered under the comprehensive liability portion of any given policy. This is in accord with the manner in which the vast majority of other jurisdictions have construed their respective uninsured motorist statutes. See State Farm Auto. Ins. Co. v. Reaves, 292 So.2d 95 (Ala. 1974), overruled on other grounds by State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Wallace, 743 So.2d 448 (Ala. 1999); First Sec. Bank v. Does, 760 S.W.2d 863 (Ark. 1988); McMichael v. Aetna Ins. Co., 878 P.2d 61 (Colo. App. 1994); Hornick v. Owners Ins. Co., 511 N.W.2d 370 (Iowa 1993); Kats v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., 490 N.W.2d 60 (Iowa 1992); Bernini v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins., 362 N.E.2d 1355 (Ill. App. 1977); Vernon Fire & Cas. Ins. Co. v. American Underwriters, Inc., 356 N.E.2d 693 (Ind. App. 1976); Babin v. State Farm Mut. Auto Ins. Co., 504 So.2d 558 (La. App. 1987); Thomas v. Allstate Ins. Co., 321 So.2d 808 (La. App. 1975); Pappas v. Central Nat'l Ins. Group of Omaha, 255 N.W.2d 629 (Mich. 1977); Roach v. Central Nat'l Ins. Co., 230 N.W.2d 297 (Mich. 1975); Georgeson v. Fidelity & Guaranty Ins. Co., 48 F.Supp.2d 1262 (D.Mont. 1998); Allied Mut. Ins. Co. v. Action Electric Co., Inc., 593 N.W.2d 275 (Neb. 1999); Rau v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 585 P.2d 157 (Wash. 1978). These courts concluded this is the most sensible reading of the phrase "persons insured thereunder" as provided in their uninsured motorist statutes. As one court explained: "If insurers are allowed to designate a separate and smaller category of persons insured under uninsured motorist coverage, then the broad-based protection which the legislature intended to require could be contractually restricted at the whim of insurers." Kaysen v. Federal Ins. Co., 268 N.W.2d 920, 924-25 (Minn. 1978).
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