MHM Services v. Assurance Company of America

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that because insured had a full-time general counsel and local litigation counsel, it was sophisticated in commerce and insurance
• finding delay in tender unreasonable where “timing reveals that this insured did not bother to read the complaint and its insurance contract together”
• finding insured was sophisticated where it had both primary and excess/umbrella coverage, general counsel, local litigation counsel, coverage counsel, and had enough cash to pay litigation and settlement expenses
• “In some instances, an insured’s belief that coverage was not available under a particular policy has been deemed an acceptable excuse where the insured was acting as a reasonably prudent person when it formed this belief.”
• “Notice of an ‘occurrence’ or offense is not notice of a ‘claim’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).