Board of Ed. of Bor. of Chatham v. Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.

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• The purpose of liability insurance is to protect the insured from liability within the limits of the policy coverage.
• “when a conflict of interest arises between the insurer as agent and its insured as principal, the insurer’s conduct will be subject to closer scrutiny than that of the ordinary agent because of the adverse interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).