State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding for determination of whether insurer made a reasonably thorough and prompt investigation of an applicant’s insurability after the policy issued
• “An insurer cannot neglect its duty to make a reasonable investigation of insurability or postpone that investigation until after it learns of a probable claim and still retain its [premiums.]”
• “An insurer cannot neglect its duty to make a reasonable investigation of insurability or postpone that investigation until after it learns of a probable claim and still retain its [premiums.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).