Must an insurance company disclose the liability limits of an automobile policy?

It depends on the timing of the request for disclosure. An insurance company has no legal duty to disclose the limits of an insured’s automobile liability policy to an injured third-party claimant prior to a lawsuit being filed. However, once litigation has commenced, the liability limits are discoverable.

This can complicate the handling of uninsured/underinsured motorist claims by UM/UIM carriers because in a potential underinsured motorist situation, the UM/UIM carrier needs to know the underlying liability limits to determine whether or not the claim would trigger UM/UIM benefits.

Source: Tit. 12 O.S. 3226(B)(1).


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