Aetna Cas. & Sur. v. PROT. NAT. INS.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that an insurer “is contractually bound to provide a qualified and competent attorney for the insured, but is not thereafter vicariously responsible for any acts of professional negligence committed by the attorney in handling the case.”
• “[A]n insurance company is not vicariously liable for the malpractice of the attorney it selects to defend the insured.”
• mere oral offer to tender does not constitute a legal tender because a check in the offered amount was never actually delivered, nor was an attempt of such delivery made

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).