Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.

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• recognizing that the Griffin exception was established due to the impossibility of using extrinsic evidence to transform an intentional tort of a drive-by-shooting into a car accident that could be covered under the insurance policy
• stating that “the determination as to duty to defend is according to the eight-corners rule wherein only the pleadings and the policy language are considered”
• “[T]he determination as to duty to defend is according to the eight-corners rule wherein only the pleadings and the policy language are considered.”
• “[T]he determination as to duty to defend is according to the eight-corners rule wherein only the pleadings and the policy language are considered. On the other hand, the insurer’s duty to indemnify is determined based on the facts actually established in the underlying suit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).