Chapman v. Bituminous Insurance (In Re Coho Resources, Inc.)

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that courts are in ‘near unanimous agreement” that 524(e) permits creditors to bring actions “nominally directed against a discharged debtor for the sole purpose of proving liability on its part as a prerequisite to recovering from its insurer”
• “[t]he ‘fresh-start’ policy is not intended to provide a method by which an insurer can escape its obligations based simply on the financial misfortunes of the insured.”
• In re Coho Res. Inc.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).