Employers Commercial Union Insurance Co. of America v. Great American Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that under Virginia law a waiver requires “both knowledge of the facts basic to the exercise of the right and the intent to relinquish that right.”
• stating that waiver requires the intentional relinquishment of a known right
• Estoppel is the consequence worked by operation of law which enjoins one whose action or inaction has induced reliance by another from benefitting from a change in his position at the expense of the other
• in waiver, intent to relinquish right is an essential element
• distinguishing equitable estoppel from waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).