Abbey v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an insured was not entitled to recover attorney fees incurred in his declaratory action against the insured where the insured was seeking to recover disability benefits
• holding that where the insured was seeking recovery of disability benefits from the insurer, the Morrison exception did not allow the insured to recover attorney fees incurred in his declaratory judgment action against the insurer
• explaining Morrison exception is limited to damages resulting from breach of contract by the insurer’s failure to defend
• denying fees incurred in suit to establish right to disability benefits
• attorneys’ fees not allowed when insured sued to recover disability benefits denied by insurer
• attorneys' fees not allowed when insured sued to recover disability benefits denied by insurer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).