· 1/8/1993
Denis Bail Bonds, Inc. v. State
Citations
- 622 A.2d 495
- 159 Vt. 481
- 1993 Vt. LEXIS 14
How courts have described this case
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- holding that State owed no duty to insurer to disclose evidence of misconduct by insurer’s agent
- lawsuits against state for acts essentially governmental in nature are barred unless state waives its sovereign immunity and consents to be sued
- effect of private-analog language is to prevent government from being visited with novel and unprecedented liabilities
- state immune from suit based on failure to provide notice of complaints filed with state agency
- any duty of Department of Banking and Insurance to investigate insurance agents runs to general public, not to any class of insurers
- state regulatory agency not liable under tort claims act’s private analog test for allegedly failing to warn plaintiff of complaints filed with agency regarding plaintiff’s agent
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Judges: Allen, Gibson, Dooley, Morse, Johnson
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