Mullins v. Commonwealth Life 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 insurer and agent had no duty to advise as to the availability of optional coverage
• explaining that an insurer owes customers a standard duty of reasonable care rather than a heightened duty to advise
• finding no duty on insurance company to provide advice regarding optional coverage in the absence of statutory requirement
• recognizing the authority of Flowers
• \When a court resolves a question of duty it is essentially making a policy determination.\
• “Insurance brokers and agents owe a standard duty of reasonable care to their clients.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).