Standard Oil Co. v. Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Co.

The plaintiffs-appellees brought suit against defendant-appellant Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Company, Ltd. (hereinafter also “HIG”) to recover damages they allegedly sustained when HIG failed and refused to defend actions brought against them by the heirs and executors of the pilot and the passengers of a plane which crashed on May 20,1973. In. the circuit court, HIG raised as one of its principal defenses the failure to give notice as required by the insurance contract. The trial court disposed of this contention by ruling that HIG had waived notice. On appeal, the intermediate court of…