Bolden v. General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Corp.

Plaintiffs appeal from an order sustaining defendant’s motion to dismiss their second amended complaint for failure to state a cause of action. The issue presented on appeal is whether plaintiffs’ second amended complaint failed to state a cause of action in promissory estoppel.

Plaintiffs, injured in a multi-car collision on June 20, 1979, filed an unverified complaint on December 28, 1979, which alleged that they were beneficiaries of an agreement between Aetna Casualty & Surety Company (Aetna) and defendant General Accident, Fire and Life Assurance Corporation (General), insurers of two…