GREAT AMERICAN INS. CO. v. C.G. TATE CONST. CO.

No. 326PA85.

340 S.E.2d 743 (1986)

315 N.C. 714

GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY v. C.G. TATE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

February 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patterson, Dilthey, Clay, Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog by Robert W. Sumner, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Nye & Mitchell by Charles B. Nye and Edmund D. Milam, Jr., Durham, for defendant-appellee.


MARTIN, Justice.

This case concerns insurance policy notice provisions requiring that an insured notify the insurer "as soon as practicable" and positing that the requirement operates as a condition precedent to coverage. The question of how to construe that provision and this case have been before this Court once before, in Insurance Co. v. Construction Co., 303 N.C. 387, 279 S.E.2d 769 (1981).

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