Baron Oil Co. v. Nationwide Mut. Fire Ins.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an insurer does not owe a duty to defend where a “complaint alleges facts that clearly bring the entire cause of action within a policy ex- clusion” (emphasis added)
• explaining that an insurer has a duty to defend the entire action if some alleged claims are covered and some are not, at least until the covered claims are eliminated from the suit
• noting that “if the complaint alleges facts showing two or more grounds for liability, one being within the insurance coverage and the other not, the insurer is obligated to defend the entire suit.”
• explaining that an insurer has a duty to defend the entire action if some alleged claims are covered and some are not, at least until the covered claims are eliminated from the suit
• insurer’s duty to defend terminated when the amended complaint clearly reflected that the plaintiff’s entire claim was based on events falling within the policy exclusion
• “[I]f the complaint alleges facts showing two or more grounds for liability, one being within the insurance coverage and the other not, the insurer is obligated to defend the entire suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).