State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Kurylowicz

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the insurer’s duty to undertake a reasonable investigation “directly inures to the benefit of third persons injured by the insured”
• holding that the insurer’s duty to undertake a reasonable investigation “directly inures to the benefit of third persons injured by the insured”
• declaring the public policy of the state of Michigan that automobile accident victims have a source of recovery, and holding that unreasonable delay in discovering fraud or misrepresentation will result in waiver
• court indicated that it was questionable whether an automobile liability policy could ever be rescinded ab initio after accident, in light of legislative enactments which, when read in pari materia, suggested policy that persons suffering loss in traffic accidents have a source of recovery
• protecting third persons from rescission after statutory investigation period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).