Reliance Insurance v. St. Paul Insurance Companies

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that delay in notification was not prejudicial, but that it could be in other factual settings
• concluding that showing of actual prejudice by insurer is required to defeat liability
• noting that a lawyer’s professional liability insurance “is not only a contract between the insurer and the insured but also a contract for the benefit of the public”
• recognizing public policy reasons for requiring showing of prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).