Bernard v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• discussing Purcell and explaining that “[a] sole proprietorship was distinguished from a corporation on the basis that the former is not a distinct entity”
• holding the same where injured was corporate officer
• “[A]pproving a plan of closure or consolidation is not something that can be accomplished overnight, but is a protracted ordeal so as to ensure a more contemplative analysis before such a major decision is made.”
• “[U]se of the vehicle within the contemplation of a liability policy or statute would seem to extend at least to the point, beyond physical contact, where control over the instrumentality is easily or reasonably at hand, and particularly when it is still being ‘utilized’.”
• distinction between corporation and sole proprietorship recognized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).