Chase v. National Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insurer was bound by a policy issued in reliance on misrepresentations made by its agent, who was acting within the course and scope of his agency, and that the insured was entitled to prejudgment interest from the date when the insurer should have paid the loss
• “A statement in an insurance policy importing an intention to do or not to do a thing which materially affects the risk is a warranty that such act or omission will take place.... Generally speaking, compliance with the terms of a warranty is a condition precedent to a right of recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).