American Standard Insurance Co. v. Le

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• reversing fee award where insurer defended under reservation of rights and brought unsuccessful declaratory judgment action
• attorney’s fees may be awarded only with statutory basis or if insurer has breached contract by refusing to defend insured
• insured can recover attorney’s fees when insurer wrongfully fails to defend but not when insurer litigates duty to indemnify
• exclusion for damage “arising out of any premises, other than an insured premises” did not exclude from coverage injury resulting from insured’s careless possession of whiskey, consumed by minors who then were involved in an automobile accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).