McLachlan v. New York Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• when determining the existence of a duty and “whether the duty extends to protect a particular plaintiff from a particular harm” Louisiana jurisprudence “looks to moral, social, and economic factors” (citations omitted)
• “Louisiana provides a general negligent misrepresentation cause of action where there is a legal duty to provide correct information and the defendant fails to disclose or discloses misinformation.”
• “Louisiana provides a general negligent misrepresentation cause of action where there is a legal duty to provide correct information and the defendant fails to disclose or discloses misinformation.”
• “Under Louisiana law, the insurer-insured relationship doesn't give rise to a fiduciary duty…”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).