Prior v. S. C. Medical Malpractice Liability Insurance Joint Underwriting Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the notice-prejudice rule does not apply when there is no innocent third party and the underlying plaintiff has already been compensated
• holding the notice-prejudice rule does not apply when there is no innocent third party and the underlying plaintiff has already been compensated
• discussing an insurer’s duty to defend and stating “[i]n examining the complaint, we must look beyond the labels describing the acts, to the acts themselves which form the basis of the claim against the insurer”
• “No rule of law is more firmly established in this jurisdiction than that one suing on a policy of insurance, where the notice required by the policy is not timely given, cannot recover....”
• “No rule of law is more firmly established in this jurisdiction than that one suing on a policy of insurance, where the notice required by the policy is not timely given, cannot recover....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).