insurance risk
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 312 U.S. 531 - Helvering v. Le Gierse · 1941Most cited · 453 citing opinions
Historically and commonly insurance involves risk-shifting and risk-distributing. That these elements of risk-shifting and risk-distributing are essential to a life insurance contract is agreed by courts and commentators.
How often courts cite the case defining “insurance risk”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “insurance risk” — 453 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.