Celina Mutual Insurance v. Citizens Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• finding that prorating defense costs among primary and excess insurers, based upon their exposure, “provides no obstacle to an effective defense and leads to a more equitable distribution of the cost of litigation among the insurers”
• \an insurer's obligation to defend does not depend on its eventual liability to pay.\
• “an insurer’s obligation to defend does not depend on its eventual liability to pay.”
• where excess insurer knew that the primary coverage would be exhausted, it was obligated to pay pro rata share of defense costs based on the amount of settlement it was required to pay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).