Atlas Insurance v. Chapman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that a four-month delay was a substantial and material breach of the insurance policy
• four-month delay was not “as soon as practicable” in accident context when insured did not offer “any excuse or sufficient justification” (citations omitted)
• 126-day delay in giving notice was a “substantial and material” breach of the notice provision
• “[W]e hold as a matter of law, that the 126-day delay in complying with the notice provisions in the policy, without any justification, constitutes a substantial and material violation of the insurer’s notice requirement”
• “[W]e hold as a matter of law, that the 126-day delay in complying with the notice provisions in the policy, without any justification, constitutes a substantial and material violation of the insurer’s notice requirement”
• same as to 126 days, or about 4 months

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).