Equity General Insurance Co. v. Patis

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a five month delay was unreasonable
• upholding that an “experienced insurance agent” could be considered a sophisticated insured
• “as soon as practicable” provision is not ambiguous, illegal or against public policy and thus should be enforced by the courts
• 41/2-month delay not excused when an insurance agent failed to notify his malpractice insurer of a malpractice claim against him and offered no reason for the delay
• \as soon as practica-ble\ provision is not ambiguous, illegal or against public policy and thus should be enforced by the courts
• 4½-year delay not excused when an insurance agent failed to notify his malpractice insurer of a malpractice claim against him and offered no reason for the delay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).