Fortuitous definition

Fortuitous means happening by chance or accident, or occurring unexpectedly or without known cause. Johnson Press of America, Inc. v. Northern Insurance Co. of New York, 339 Ill. App. 3d 864, 872 (2003). The Restatement of Contracts defines a fortuitous event as one that, as far as the parties are aware, is dependent on chance. Johnson Press, 339 Ill. App. 3d at 872, citing Restatement of Contracts §291, Comment a, 430-31 (1932). “The determination of whether a loss is fortuitous is a legal question for the court to determine.” Johnson Press, 339 Ill. App. 3d at 872.
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Fortuitous means loss or damage that is not knowingly about to occur.
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Fortuitous means happening by chance or accident or occurring unexpectedly or without known cause.”); Terraces Condo. Ass'n, 2022 WL 847478, at *4 (“[T]he insured’s burden of showing a fortuitous loss is ‘not a particularly onerous one.’”). It is also undisputed that the Policy was in effect at the time. Thus, the Redmonds have met their burden in showing a prima facie case.
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Examples of Fortuitous in a sentence

  • Fortuitous under spends in budgets will be applied to offset over spends on other budgets.

  • Fortuitous under spends in budgets may be applied to offset over spends on other budgets.

  • Neither Party shall be liable to the other for a breach of its contractual obligations where that is due to an event of Force Majeure or a Fortuitous Event, as provided for in article 1105 of the Civil Code.

  • Fortuitous Event is an event which is possible and could possibly occur during the term of the Insurance or whose time of occurrence is not known.Beneficiary is a person designated by the Policyholder who becomes entitled to the benefit as a result of an Insured Event in the event of death of the Insured.Entitled Person is a person who becomes entitled to the benefit as a result of an Insured Event.

  • The Client’s incapacity to access the ING Business Service at any moment, on account of an interruption, malfunction, or delay in the communication services not attributable to the Bank or in the ING Business Service, caused by Force Majeure or in a Fortuitous Case, as defined in the GTC.

  • In case the money received from sale of FI is transferred directly to the Client not through the Investment Account, the Bank is not responsible for the transfer of funds to the Client’s Bank account in a timely manner.

  • The Construction Manager hereby waives any and all claims for additional compensation or monetary damages arising out of or related to any such delay or interference caused by a Fortuitous Event, including, but not limited to, claims for additional Staffing and Site Office Costs or Fee; claims for extended general conditions costs; claims for delay damages, interference damages, impact damages, acceleration damages; and/or any other form of time-related damages.

  • Fortuitous discovery of common bile duct stones: results of a conservative strategy.

  • Fortuitous income (deemed to be additional income that in aggregate totals or exceeds £100,000 in a service), cannot be retained within cash limit budgets and must be reported to the Deputy Chief Executive and City Treasurer and then the Executive for consideration of how these additional monies are to be used.

  • Fortuitous loss (the loss needs to be really coincidental): fortuity is required as a mechanism of abating the incidence of moral hazard.


More Definitions of Fortuitous

Fortuitous means ‘accidental’
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Fortuitous means “by chance” or “accidental,” not “fortunate” (e.g. “Marshall Sahlins argues that Captain Cook’s fortuitous arrival in February, after the Makahiki festival had ended, led to his death, because the Hawaiians, mistaking Cook for the God, Lono, killed him to restore cosmic order”).
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Related to Fortuitous

  • Unforeseeable means not reasonably foreseeable by an experienced contractor by the Base Date.

  • Site Control means that Seller (a) owns the Site, (b) is the lessee of the Site under a Lease, (c) is the holder of a right-of-way grant or similar instrument with respect to the Site, or (d) is managing partner or other Person authorized to act in all matters relating to the control and Operation of the Site and Generating Facility.

  • Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

  • Catastrophic illness or "Injury" means an illness or injury that is expected to incapacitate the employee for an extended period of time, or that incapacitates a member of the employee's family which incapacity requires the employee to take time off from work for an extended period of time to care for that family member, and taking extended time off work creates a financial hardship for the employee because he or she has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and other paid time off.

  • Force Majeure Event means an event, or a series of related events, that is outside the reasonable control of the party affected (including failures of the internet or any public telecommunications network, hacker attacks, denial of service attacks, virus or other malicious software attacks or infections, power failures, industrial disputes affecting any third party, changes to the law, disasters, explosions, fires, floods, riots, terrorist attacks and wars);

  • Force Majeure means an event beyond the control of the supplier and not involving the supplier’s fault or negligence and not foreseeable. Such events may include, but is not restricted to, acts of the purchaser in its sovereign capacity, wars or revolutions, fires, floods, epidemics, quarantine restrictions and freight embargoes.