Lankford v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insured’s failure to provide notice until almost two years after the collision was not, as a matter of law “as soon as reasonably possible”
• finding that policy language stating “[t]here is no right of action against” the insurance company “until all the terms of this policy have been met” created a condition precedent to coverage
• stating that a notice provision is valid and must be complied with
• noting policies at issue provided that “[t]here is no right of action against” the insurance company “until all the terms of this policy have been met”
• “unjustifiable delay, may be found as a matter of law to have been so unreasonable as to foreclose coverage”
• failure to notify for nearly two years based on belief that other insurance would cover claim was unreasonable as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).