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

“[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.”

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.