Townsend v. National Union Fire Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that late notice was “inexcusable” where the insured “was not aware he might be entitled to the no-fault benefits”
• holding that the insured’s 70-month delay in notifying his car insurance carrier of his claim was unreasonable as a matter of law when his only excuse was that he was unaware that he was entitled to benefits and he did not know the name of the carrier insuring his truck
• holding that the insured’s 70-month delay in notifying his car insurance carrier of his claim was unreasonable as a matter of law when his only excuse was that he was unaware that he was entitled to benefits and he did not know the name of the carrier insuring his truck
• finding notification untimely as a matter of law where insured’s only excuse was lack of knowledge of coverage and identity of insurer
• rejecting claim that insured was unaware he might be entitled to benefits as justification for delay
• notification over five years after incident untimely as matter of law where insured’s only excuse for delay was not knowing he was covered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).