Blackburn v. Fidelity and Deposit Co. of Maryland

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that actions occurring after an insurer has denied coverage does not insulate the insurer from bad-faith liability and does not determine whether the insurer is liable for bad faith
• “A review of the language of F&D’s fiduciary responsibility policy and the Blackburn firm’s professional liability insurance policy reveals that the policies do not cover the same risks.”
• claims filed against insured outside of policy period were covered because they were part of “same claim” arising from lawsuits filed during the policy period in light of pleadings in prior lawsuits
• bad-faith refusal to provide defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).