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Hill v. Grandey

Citations

  • 321 A.2d 28
  • 132 Vt. 460
  • 1974 Vt. LEXIS 369

How courts have described this case

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

  • for res judicata purposes claims are same if same evidence will support action in both instances
  • insured is under no “obligation to respond” to insurance agent’s attempts to gain facts that may be relevant to additional available coverage
  • agent was told only to obtain coverage provided to previous owner and had no reason to know of off-premises barbecue business which had never been included under coverage before
  • “An agent may point out to [an insured] the advantages of additional coverage and may ferret out additional facts from the insured applicable to such coverage, but he is under no obligation to do so; nor is the insured under an obligation to respond.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Barney, Smith, Keyser, Daley, Larrow

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32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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