Royal-Globe Insurance v. Craven

How courts have described this case

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• holding that suit is in contract where liability is predicated on defendant's breach of a contract to indemnify for injuries physically caused by another
• holding that suit is in contract where liability is predicated on defendant's breach of a contract to indemnify for injuries physically caused by another
• concluding, respectively, that notification given approximately forty-six days, nine months, and four months, after occurrence of accidents was not prompt
• applying the six-year limitations period where the defendant insurer’s liability was not based on “its actions resulting in personal injury, but, rather, its contractual promise to indemnify against such injury.”
• insurance policy required compliance with 24-hour notice provision as condition precedent to coverage; however, prompt notice was excused because of extenuating circumstances
• “The basis of [the insurer’s] liability is not its actions resulting in personal injuiy but, rather, its contractual promise to indemnify against such injury”

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