Bristol West Insurance v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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

• Washington’s “mend the hold” doctrine “precludes an insurer from changing the basis for avoiding liability after the onset of litigation”
• precluding insurance company from 12 asserting additional bases for rescinding coverage because it waited to do so “until well after 13 litigation began”
• absent a “real conflict” between the laws of Washington and another state, the Court applies “the ‘presumptive local law’”
• “Washington follows the rule of d[é]pe[ç]age.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).