Capitol Indemnity Corp. v. Fraley

How courts have described this case

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• “In the absence of a judgment against the defendants, Fraley has no rights under the Capital Indemnity policy and thus could not sue the insurer directly.”
• plaintiff in underlying tort action, who was not in privity of contract with insurer, could not complain in declaratory judgment action that insurer was estopped from challenging coverage because it failed to timely reserve its rights under policy with insured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).