Carpenter v. Superior Court

How courts have described this case

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

• involving assignment of the rights of a judgment-creditor of an insured
• rights of insured’s judgment creditor against insurer are no greater than the insured’s, “in whose shoes he stands”
• no evidence showed that permissive driver even knew of existence of insurance policy, much less of any duty to cooperate with the insurer
• “there is a duty to exercise reasonable diligence to secure the assistance of the insured, including a request for such assistance and reasonable efforts in attempting to locate him”
• where insured’s employee-driver disappeared after accident without explanation and without the insurer having ever contacted him, there was no evidence of lack of good faith on the driver’s part, so insurer failed to show that disappearance was willful failure to cooperate
• bankruptcy trustee of subsidiary different entity than subsidiary itself

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Other cases named Carpenter v. Superior Court

4 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Carpenter v. Superior Court
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1993-07-29· cited 13×
• Carpenter v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 2006-07-11· cited 7×
• Carpenter v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1888-10-27· cited 3×
• Carpenter v. Superior Court
  California Court of Appeal· 1936-06-19