Beckwith MacHinery Co. v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

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• finding that “[i]t is hornbook law that if an insurer assumes the insured's defense without sending the insured a reservation of rights letter or bringing a declaratory relief action, the insurer will later be precluded from denying coverage”
• insured suffered actual prejudice and, therefore, insurer estopped from disclaiming coverage after insured relied upon it for coverage for 13 months

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).