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· 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

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

  • 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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