direct action
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 348 U.S. 48 - Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Elbert · 1954Most cited · 405 citing opinions
The Louisiana courts have characterized the statute as creating a separate and distinct cause of action against the insurer which an injured party may elect in lieu of his action against the tortfeasor.
How often courts cite the case defining “direct action”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “direct action” — 405 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.