Trancik v. USAA 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 “an individual who is not a party to a contract generally cannot be liable for its breach”
• providing that non- parties to a contract are generally not liable under the contract
• stating that “the third party, or the incidental beneficiary, does not have a contractual relationship with the insurer and cannot maintain an action against the insurer for breach of the insurance contract”
• “Third-party-liability- insurance contracts are generally indemnity contracts whereby the insurer, or the first party, agrees to pay the insured, or the second party, the amount of any damages the insured may become legally liable to pay a third party.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).