Auto Flat Car Crushers, Inc. v. Hanover Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• insurer “stood in breach of its duty” when it “ ’disclaimed a duty to defend without first obtaining a judicial declaration’ ”
• “To the extent that a plaintiff already has received compensation for its underlying loss prior to the resolution of its [chapter] 93A claim, such compensation has been treated as an offset against any damages ultimately awarded, rather than as a bar to recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).