American Best Food v. Alea London

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an insurer’s “failure to defend based upon a questionable interpretation of law was unreasonable”
• holding that a nightclub’s act of “dump[ing]” a gunshot-wounded patron out on the sidewalk contributed significantly to the patron’s injuries, triggering a duty to defend in spite of the club’s insurance policy exclusion for injuries arising from assault or battery
• explaining that any ambiguity as to coverage must be resolved in favor of the claimant
• interpreting provision excluding claims “arising out of” assault as not reaching “related” post-assault negligence
• “Again, if there is any reasonable interpretation of 14 the facts or the law that could result in coverage, the insurer must defend.”
• “... Toll Bridge did not consider an allegation that postaccident negligence by the insured caused injuries.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).