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2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 38 - Insurance
Chapter 77 - AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
Section 38-77-200 - Arbitration clause prohibited in uninsured motorist provision; requirements on insured; action and employment of counsel by insured.
SC Code § 38-77-200 (2012) What's This?
The uninsured motorist provision may not require arbitration of any claim arising under it, nor may anything not otherwise herein provided for or as may be provided in the form prescribed by the director or his designee be required of the insured except the establishment of legal liability of the uninsured motorist, nor may the insured be restricted or prevented in any manner from employing legal counsel or instituting legal proceedings.
HISTORY: Former 1976 Code Section 56-9-880 [1962 Code Section 46-750.37; 1963 (53) 526] recodified as Section 38-77-200 by 1987 Act No. 155, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181,Section 808.
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