Court Opinion

ID: 9762364
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 02:21:10.145365+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:33.795685
License: Public Domain

FLAHERTY, Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the rationale expressed in the dissent authored by Mr. Justice Nix, but concur in the result reached by the majority in this case. The relationship between the parties is contractual, and, notwithstanding the legislatively dictated term in the contract of insurance, equitable principles apply to this as well as other terms, and, indeed, the expectations based on the realities of custom and practice are to be considered. I would join the well-reasoned Dissenting Opinion were the pleaded facts sufficient to invoke the principle which it declares, but, in my view, the record has precluded me from doing so.