Sullivan v. Great Plains Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that damage to vehicle, even though result of driver’s own careless behavior, was still “an accident” within meaning of insurance policy
• accident is “ ‘an unexpected happening without intention or design,”’ quoting 45 C.J.S. Insurance § 829 (1946)
• evidence must show either that insured intended particular damage or similar damage before policy does not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).