DAVIS v. CRITERION INS. CO.

No. S-2130.

754 P.2d 1331 (1988)

Cleve DAVIS, Appellant, v. CRITERION INSURANCE COMPANY, and Virgil Hewing, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

May 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Offret, Aglietti, Pennington & Rodey, Fairbanks, for appellant.

Dennis M. Bump, Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin, Fairbanks, for appellees.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

In this case we must decide whether an insurance company, after denying coverage, can be held liable for a failure to defend its insured in a prior suit when the insured failed to notify the insurer that she was being sued.

Cleve Davis sustained damage to his 1977 Dodge van and claimed bodily injury as a result of being rear ended by Patricia Love. The collision occurred as Davis was approaching a stop sign at the corner of...

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