Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Gorsuch v. Provident Security Life Insurance
Gorsuch v. Provident Sec. Life Ins., 376 U.S. 950 (1964)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1964-03-23
- Topic
- estate-planning
How later courts describe this case
- “[w]e specifically approve of the district court’s use of special interrogatories, which can avoid the ‘inscrutable mystery of a general verdict [and] impenetrable uncertainty’”...
- gross negligence: “Where a claim of breach of fiduciary duty is predicated upon underlying conduct, such as negligence, which is actionable in a direct suit at common law, the issue of whether there has been such a breach is ... a jury question.”
Citator
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- Authority status
- pending
- Cited by
- 50 opinions
C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.