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· 5/13/2003

Green Door Realty Corporation, Joan Sonnylal and Bysie Siew v. Tig Insurance Company

Citations

  • 329 F.3d 282
  • 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 9166
  • 2003 WL 21058565

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the insured’s prompt report of a claim to the insurer did not excuse the insured’s three-year wait in reporting the underlying accident
  • “[A] delay may be unreasonable as a matter of law when either no excuse is advanced or the proffered excuse is meritless.”
  • “On the other hand, there is also evidence in the record that [broker] did not have the authority to accept notices of claims from [] insured.”
  • “[G]iven the conflicting evidence as to whether [broker] was [insurer’s] agent based on actual or apparent authority, the District Court erred in concluding that there were no material factual disputes concerning the existence of a principal-agent relationship”

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Judges: Walker, Oakes, Miner

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