Century Surety Co. v. Jim Hipner, LLC

Docket NumberS-15-0294
Decision Date17 August 2016
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7 cases
  • Pitzer Coll. v. Indian Harbor Ins. Co.
    • United States
    • California Supreme Court
    • August 29, 2019
    ...tort victims’; and 3) ‘the inequity of the insurer receiving a windfall due to a technicality.’ " ( Century Sur. Co. v. Jim Hipner, LLC (Wyo. 2016) 377 P.3d 784, 789.) These reasons are largely in accord with the justifications courts have set forth in determining that other rules constitut......
  • Hurst v. Metro. Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co., S-17-0082.
    • United States
    • Wyoming Supreme Court
    • September 12, 2017
    ...function of insurance coverage" is to "provid[e] compensation for injuries sustained by innocent members of the public." Century Sur. Co. v. Jim Hipner, LLC , 2016 WY 81, ¶ 12, 377 P.3d 784, 790 (Wyo. 2016). Even more poignantly, "it is apparent that the purpose of uninsured-motorists insur......
  • Brock v. Jim Hipner, LLC, Case No. 4-15-cv-84
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of North Dakota
    • January 25, 2017
    ...effect of the notice requirement in the insurance contract between Century and Hipner, which were answered in Century Surety Co. v. Jim Hipner, LLC, 377 P.3d 784 (Wyo. 2016). After this response, the Eighth Circuit affirmed this court's judgment, albeit on the alternative grounds Century ha......
  • Neumayer v. Phila. Indem. Ins. Co.
    • United States
    • South Carolina Supreme Court
    • July 24, 2019
    ...twentieth century, the notice-prejudice rule continued to gain support, and it is now clearly the majority rule. Century Sur. Co. v. Hipner, LLC , 377 P.3d 784, 788 (Wyo. 2016) ("A vast majority of jurisdictions now follow the modern trend and have adopted the notice-prejudice rule.").This ......
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  • Court Summaries
    • United States
    • Wyoming State Bar Wyoming Lawyer No. 39-5, October 2016
    • Invalid date
    ...by res judicata since the charges had been previously dismissed with prejudice. Century Surety Company v. Jim Hipner, LLC and Huey Brock 2016 WY 81 S-15-0294 August 17, 2016 This case involves a certified question from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jim Hipner, LLC obtained a policy of i......

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