Colonial Gas Energy System v. Unigard Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding insurer was prejudiced as a matter of law when insured notified it of a loss from a leaking gas tank only after it had repaired and resealed the tank, precluding investigation of the leak by the insurer
• holding insurer was prejudiced as a matter of law when insured notified it of a loss from a leaking gas tank only after it had repaired and resealed the tank, precluding investigation of the leak by the insurer
• “To hold otherwise would give the insured carte blanche to withhold notice of a claim until facts or witnesses material to the defense against its claim have been made unavailable ....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).