Mercury Insurance v. Pearson

How courts have described this case

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

• any negligence committed by broker in procuring insurance was committed in capacity as 3 agent of insured where broker selected insurance policy from among those offered by several 4 companies
• “If an insurance agent is the agent for 11 several companies, and either selects the company with which to place the insurance or picks an 12 insurer at the insured’s direction, the insurance agent is the agent of the insured, not the insurer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).