Uninsured Motorist Coverage - Scope of the Term - "Uninsured Motorist"; Porter v. Empire Fire and Marine Insurance Co.

Absent a statutory definition of "uninsured motorist," the court under its powers of construction must, in a functional sense, legislate the gap-filling language. The outcome elsewhere on facts similar to those in Porter will depend, in part, on whether the legislature in adopting uninsured motorist statutes, have incorporated a definition of its terms.