Twin City Fire Insurance v. Old World Trading Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that lack of prejudice to the insurer is a factor to be considered only where the insured has a good excuse for the late notice or where the' delay was relatively brief
• finding notice untimely when, by the time insured notified any carrier, it had already incurred over $500,000 in attorneys fees and taken over 41 depositions
• time within which notice is required is determined by a standard of reasonableness based upon the facts and circumstances of a particular case
• test is whether any reasonably prudent person could foresee a suit involving the policy and would contact insurer
• test is whether any reasonably prudent person could foresee a suit involving the policy and would contact insurer
• passage of four months between insured’s notice to insurer and insurer’s denial of coverage was reasonable, as insurer was conducting investigation regarding insured’s lengthy delay of notice and management of underlying suit

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).