United Airlines, Inc. v. Lerner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that travel agent owed a duty to “disclose all information the agent learns which is material to the object of the agency” but neither a duty to investigate nor to “inform its clients of potential dangers ahead”
• Travel agent “is a special agent, akin to a broker, which engages in a single business transaction with the principal_ The law requires only that agents be loyal, not prescient”
• no duty of travel agent to disclose road closure that could affect customer travel plans because “[t]he law requires only that agents be loyal, not prescient” and that “United was not required to tell Lerner of possible hindrances to his vacation”
• denying any duty of investigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).