Burnett v. Safeco Ins. Co. of Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statutory exclusions did not apply and insurer was required to make a new offer of coverage where daughter, previously insured on parents’ policy, applied for policy listing daughter as sole named insured and covering different vehicle
• noting that “a declaratory judgment action brought prior to a determination of the insured’s liability is premature since the question to be determined is not then ripe for adjudication”
• noting that \a declaratory judgment action brought prior to a determination of the insured's liability is premature since the question to be determined is not then ripe for adjudication\
• “the supreme court construed this provision as guaranteeing the right to trial by jury as it existed in common law actions when this country’s constitution was adopted” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).