Arizona Supreme Court· 12/28/1966

Carpenter v. Superior Court

Citations

422 P.2d 129
101 Ariz. 565
1966 Ariz. LEXIS 394

How courts have described this case

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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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Judges: McFarland, Bernstein, Struckmeyer, Udall, Lockwood

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Cites

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