Cabrera v. Atlantic National Insurance

It is regrettable that the insurance company did not see fit to compromise this claim, one of several arising out of a collision between two automobiles, and the only one not compromised. The plaintiff, injured in the collision, thereupon brought suit in this court (later transferred to the Civil Court), and the owner’s insurance carrier had its attorneys appear for the owner. The Civil Court thereafter permitted the attorneys to withdraw on the ground that the owner had failed to co-operate with his carrier in the defense of the action and it set the case for an assessment of damages. There…