Baen v. Farmers Mut. Fire Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• once an excess insurer denies coverage, the primary insurer’s duty of good faith “evaporates” and the primary is no longer obligated to keep excess apprised of the status of the claim
• “[t]he primary carrier is in a knowledgeable position, as it has current information of the status of an underlying claim, while the excess carrier relies on the primary carrier to act in good faith”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).