LaPorte v. Royal Indemnity Co.

The plaintiff’s motor vehicle sustained property damage on December 30, 1972, and she made a claim under an insurance policy issued to her as an assigned risk. By mistake the insurer’s adjuster sent the plaintiff three successive releases in inappropriate form, the claim was not paid within fifteen days of the receipt of the “reasonable proof” required by G. L. c. 90, § 340, and the plaintiff brought suit. A judge of a District Court found that the insurer was negligent in processing the *971claim, but that its failure to pay was not so unreasonable as to constitute a refusal under § 340, and…