Wisniski v. Brown & Brown Ins. Co. of PA

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that insurance broker did not owe clients a duty to inform them that their policy lacked flood insurance even though an inspection of the property would have revealed that it was at risk of flooding
• presuming that “for the great majority of [insurance] broker-client interactions, the relationship will not be so extremely one-sided as to be confidential”
• stating that insureds have -8- J-A24040-23 “the duty to inquire about the scope of insurance coverage” (internal quotations and citation omitted)
• stating that insureds have “the duty to inquire about the scope of insurance coverage” (internal quotations and citation omitted)
• finding that an insurance broker does not have a “duty to inspect business premises and advise clients based on that inspection.”
• “An ‘insurance broker’ is one who acts as a middleman between the insured and the insurer[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).