Swanson v. Safeco Title Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the damage-valuation date under an owner’s title insurance policy was the date the title defect was discovered
• title policy insured’s measure of damages was property’s fair market value without title defect less fair market value with defect
• measure of insured's loss due to title encumbrance is cost of removing encumbrance or diminished value of property, not consequential damages such as loss of opportunity to refinance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).