Tresner v. State Farm Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that insurer must show prejudice to avoid coverage on late notice grounds because “the denial of coverage for failing to comply with the notification requirement amounts to a forfeiture”
• explaining “the general rule in Missouri law rejects the notion that prejudice to the insurer will be conclusively or rebuttably presumed as a matter of law.”
• “[W]here all reasonable persons would conclude that notice…was not given or made within [a reasonable] time, under all of the circumstances, then it becomes a question of law for the court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).