Reagor v. Travelers Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “the rationale underlying this policy is that disclosure of liability coverage at a trial against an insured for injuries resulting from his negligence constitutes prejudicial error”
• “As a beneficiary of a liability insurance policy, an injured person has rights under the policy which vest at the time of the occurrence giving rise to his injuries”
• liability insurance abounds with public policy considerations and therefore injured members of the general public are beneficiaries of liability insurance policies
• “liability insurance is no longer considered merely a private matter between an insured and an insurer”
• “the rationale underlying this policy is that disclosure of liability coverage at a trial against an insured for injuries resulting from his negligence constitutes prejudicial error”
• “liability insurance abounds with public policy considerations, one of which is that the risk-spreading theories of such policies should operate to afford affected members of the public the maximum protection possible consonant with fairness to the insurer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).