Booska v. Hubbard Insurance Agency, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• describing that summary judgment is not substitute for determination on merits
• noting that an insurance agent has a duty “to use reasonable care and diligence to procure insurance that will meet the needs and wishes of the prospective insured, as stated by the insured” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• insurance agent/broker owes insured duty to procure insurance that meets insured’s needs; no mention of any duty on part of insured
• “It is not the function of the trial court, however, to find facts on a motion for summary judgment, even if the record appears to lean strongly in one direction.”
• “Summary judgment is not a substitute for a determination on the merits, so long as evidence has been presented which creates an issue of material fact, no matter what view the court may take of the relative weight of that evidence.” (quotation omitted)
• “Summary judgment is not a substitute for a determination on the merits, so long as evidence has been presented which creates an issue of material fact, no matter what view the court may take of the relative weight of that evidence.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).