C. H. Heist Caribe Corporation v. American Home Assurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “district court was correct in granting summary judgment on this issue by resolving the ambiguity” against the insurer
• stating that the duty to defend arises whenever the allegations in the complaint in an underlying litigation state a claim to which the insurance policy potentially applies
• the factual allegations of complaint must be reviewed to determine whether terms of policy potentially apply
• “[A]n insurer’s obligation to defend an action against the insured is not necessarily coextensive with its obligation to indemnify the insured.”
• duty to defend comes into play if the allegations of the complaint state on their face a claim which potentially applies
• \the factual allegations of [the] complaint against [the insured] are controlling.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).