Jones v. Hyatt Insurance Agency, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insurance agent did not owe duty to accident victim for failure to procure insurance
• recognizing that a tort claimant may sue a tortfeasor’s insurer for breach of the insurer’s contractual duty to indemnify
• holding that statute of limitations on automobile accident victims' third-party beneficiary breach of contract claim against insurance agent for failure to procure insurance began to run when agent breached contract, not when the victims obtained a judgment against the insured
• holding that statute of limitations on automobile accident victims' third-party beneficiary breach of contract 12 claim against insurance agent for failure to procure insurance began to run when agent breached contract, not when the victims obtained a judgment against the insured
• declining to extend tort liability of an insurance agency to third-party beneficiaries after the insurance agency failed to procure liability insurance for an insured
• declining to extend tort liability of an insurance agency to third-party beneficiaries after the insurance agency failed to procure liability insurance for an insured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).