Legal Opinion
Dumas v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided February 26, 1971No. 6079PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGriffith, J.
The law governing actions against liability insurers for negligent failure to settle tort claims against their assureds was established here some twenty-five years ago in the cases of Dumas v. Company, 92 N.H. 140, 26 A.2d 361 (1942) and Dumas v. Hartford &c. Ind. Co., 94 N.H. 484, 56 A.2d 57 (1947). In the present case, with a plaintiff coincidentally named Dumas, we are asked to reexamine certain features of the original Dumas rules.
Flynn, J. transferred this case prior to trial with certain questions presented by the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. In addition defendant…
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- Hart v. Republic Mutual Ins.Ohio Supreme Court · 1949
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