McAlvain v. General Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming judgment against insurance agent for negligent failure to obtain requested coverage
• “Ordinarily, an insured will look to his insurance agent, relying, not unreasonably, on his expertise in placing his insurance problems in the agent’s hands.”
• insurance agent may be liable in tort for obtaining inadequate coverage
• insurance agent should be held personally liable for his own professional negligence
• agent of principal may be individually liable for negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).