Blossman v. His Creditors

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insured may establish a potentiality of coverage under an insurance policy through the use of extrinsic evidence
• noting that the “facts sufficiently established a reasonable potential that a self-defense issue” would be generated at trial and therefore the insurer had a duty to defend the insured in the underlying tort action
• “Our cases indicate that where a potentiality of coverage is uncertain from the allegations of a complaint, any doubt must be resolved in favor of the insured.”
• “[A]n insurance company has a duty to defend its insured for all claims which are potentially covered under an insurance policy.”
• “The obligation of an insurer to defend its insured . . . is determined by the allegations in the tort actions.”
• “[W]e must ascertain the scope and limitations of coverage under the Aetna insurance policies and then determine whether the allegations in the [underlying] action would potentially be covered under those policies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).