LEGGETT v. COTTON

No. 758SC940.

224 S.E.2d 235 (1976)

29 N.C. App. 331

Robert LEGGETT and Mozetta Leggett v. W. K. (Kenneth) COTTON, d/b/a Cotton Insurance Agency and North Carolina Insurance Placement Facility.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dees, Dees, Smith, Powell & Jarrett by John W. Dees, Goldsboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Smith, Anderson, Blount & Mitchell by Samuel G. Thompson, Raleigh, for defendant-appellee.


ARNOLD, Judge.

Plaintiffs in this case alleged that defendant did not use reasonable diligence in performance of his promise to procure fire insurance. "It is well established in this State that, if an insurance agent or broker undertakes to procure for another insurance against a designated risk, the law imposes upon him the duty to use reasonable diligence to procure such insurance and holds him liable to the proposed insured for loss proximately caused by his negligent...

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