The limited personal injury benefits under “dollar-a-day” auto policies are not the equivalent of having no benefits for purposes of recourse to the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund, the Supreme Court held Monday.

The unanimous decision in Sanders v. Langemeier, A-49, overturned two lower rulings that would have allowed recovery from the UCJF by an uninsured passenger in a car whose driver was covered by a dollar-a-day policy, also known as a special policy.

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