Cooper v. Berkshire Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• identifying reasonable reliance and incurring of damages caused by such as two elements of negligent misrepresentation
• stating in a case where insurance agents misrepresented to an insured that he would only have to pay premiums for ten years that insureds “cannot rely on representations made by an insurance agent in a suit against the insurance company when the policy contains clearly inconsistent terms”
• “The existence of this independent duty means that insurance agents and brokers fall within the . . . exception to the economic loss rule.”
• “An agent, employed to effect insurance, must exer cise such reasonable skill and ordinary diligence as may fairly be expected from a person in his profession or situation---The failure to meet that duty allows a recovery in tort.”
• “insurance agents and brokers clearly owe a professional’s duty to the insured”
• listing elements for negligent misrepresentation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).