Allstate Insurance v. Walker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the insurer was entitled to summary judgment where the insured did not provide notice for almost a year
• holding that the holding otherwise would mean that any insured could be excused from complying with the terms of an insurance policy merely by claiming (or feigning
• rejecting insured’s mere ignorance of contents of policy as viable excuse for failing to comply with notice provision
• finding an unexcused delay of eleven to twelve months unreasonable as a matter of law
• finding no jury question where policy required notice “as soon as possible,” and insureds asserted only that they “did not know their policy might afford coverage for [car] theft”
• insured notified insurer of loss of vehicle ten months after filing stolen vehicle report with law enforcement agency

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).