Bennett v. Farmers Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• \[T]his court has described the doctrine of waiver as applying broadly to any contract term.\
• “It is axiomatic that parties to a contract may modify that contract by mutual assent.”
• “[P]arties to a contract may modify that contract by mutual assent.”
• when an insurer has assumed an obligation to defend the insured, “[t]hat relationship, by its nature, allowed the insurer to step into the shoes of the insured and to control the subject matter of the relationship, namely the insured’s own financial liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).