Charles County Circuit Court Awards Full Coverage, Rejects Waiver

GEICO Insurance Co. should have paid $300,000 in uninsured motorist coverage to a Waldorf man when his son was rear-ended in November 2004, not the $20,000 the father purchased when he bought the policy and signed a waiver in 1992, a Charles County jury decided this month.The insurance agent was negligent when, in the mid-1990s, he allowed Phillip Peterson Jr.'s mother to triple her family's liability coverage -- from $100,000 to $300,000 -- with the express purpose of protecting her family, without telling her about the continuing effect of the waiver, the jury found.By law, an auto insurance policy must provide uninsured motorist and liability coverage in the same amount unless the insured signs a valid waiver.....

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