Doherty v. Kansas City Star Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• referring to the insurer’s assertion of a policy exclusion as an affirmative defense
• referring to the insurer’s assertion of a policy exclusion as an affirmative defense
• analyzing a fraud provision in an insurance contract as an affirmative defense
• analyzing a fraud provision in an insurance contract as an affirmative defense
• “[T]he only contract cases involving the burden of proving some element by clear and convincing evidence have dealt with oral contracts, avoiding contracts, modifying existing contracts, waiving an existing contractual term, and reforming contracts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).