Brannon v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in suit for breach of duty to defend, limitations period is equitably tolled until underlying action is terminated due to final judgment
• holding that an insurance company that was sued for failure to defend was not prejudiced by tolling the statute of limitations until the end of the underlying suit because once the defense was tendered the insurance company had \the ability and motivation to gather evidence\
• holding that an insurance company that was sued for failure to defend was not prejudiced by tolling the statute of limitations until the end of the underlying suit because once the defense was tendered the insurance company had “the ability and motivation to gather evidence”
• holding that an insurance company that was sued for failure to defend was not prejudiced by tolling the statute of limitations until the end of the underlying suit because once the defense was tendered the insurance company had “the ability and motivation to gather evidence”
• applying the contract statute of limitations to a dispute over an insurer's contractual duty to defend the insured
• “[I]n Alaska it is irrelevant if the full scope of the injury is known....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).