Cooper v. Government Employees Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the failure to give an insurer timely notice does not release the insurer from its obligations absent a showing of appreciable prejudice
• holding, in an action by insureds under an automobile liability policy, that “the carrier may not forfeit the bargained-for protection unless there are both a breach of the notice provision and a likelihood of appreciable prejudice”
• 6 Justices + 1 judge temporarily assigned

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).