Century 21, Inc., D/b/a/ Century 21 Department Stores, LLC v. Diamond State Insurance Company, Docket No. 04-3362-Cv

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• concluding that the “duty to defend will not be imposed through a strained, implausible reading of the complaint”
• holding that insurer had duty to defend insured “unless and until there [was] a point” at which, “with certainty,” alleged injury “exclude[d] any issue relating to [insured’s] conduct in the course of advertising[]”
• “[TJhis is not to say an obligation to defend necessarily continues through resolution of the underlying claim.”
• “The ‘exceedingly broad’ contours of an insurer’s duty to defend have been articulated clearly and repeatedly by the New York Court of Appeals.” (citation omitted)
• “In determining whether a duty to defend exists, courts are to “compare the allegations of the complaint to the terms of the policy.’”
• “The ‘exceedingly broad’ contours of an insurer’s duty to defend have been articulated clearly and repeatedly by the New York Court of Appeals.” (citation omitted)

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