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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BAYLY, MARTIN & FAY, INC., a Colorado corporation, and Norman Sterling, Jr., individually, Petitioners, v. PETE’S SATIRE, INC., a Colorado corporation, d/b/a the Satire Lounge, Pete Contos, an individual, and Commercial Union Insurance Company, a Massachusetts corporation, Respondents.
    No. 85SC164.
    Supreme Court of Colorado.
    Oct. 21, 1985.
   SUMMARY OF ISSUE:

Whether, in a case based on negligent failure of an insurance agent to obtain coverage, the “insured” or the agent has the burden of proving that insurancé was available to cover the specific risk to which the “insured” is exposed in an underlying lawsuit.

DENIED AS TO ALL OTHER ISSUES.