In re Manuel L.

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• holding that “[w]hile an insured’s failure to read or understand the policy or to comply with its requirements may give rise to a defense of comparative negligence in a malpractice suit against the broker, the insured’s conduct does not, as the motion court held, bar such an action”
• further noting that “[a]n insured has a right to look to the expertise of its broker with respect to insurance matters” and that “it is no answer for the broker to argue, as an insurer might, that the insured has an obligation to read the policy”
• “While an insured's failure to read or understand the policy or to comply with its requirements may give rise to a defense of comparative negligence in a malpractice suit against the broker, the insured's conduct does not. . . . bar such an action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).