Bruceton Bank v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that insurer’s duty to defend is governed by whether allegations of complaint are reasonably susceptible of interpretation that claim is covered by policy terms
• finding that, despite negligence claim, the nature of the complaint was breach of contract in part because “the damages claimed by the [underlying plaintiff] more appropriately had their origin in contract, rather than in tort”
• reasoning that “[t]he mandate of Hutzler to ‘conduct a reasonable inquiry into the facts’ behind the allegations of the complaint . . . effectively constitute[s] an overstatement of the [] standard set forth in Leeber and Pitrolo
• “[I]ncluded in the consideration of whether the insurer has a duty to defend is whether the allegations in the complaint . . . are reasonably susceptible of an interpretation that the claim may be covered by the terms of the insurance policies.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).