Certain Underwriters v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that trial court “erred in granting summary judgment on the ground that [plaintiff insurers’] contribution claims were extinguished by [defendant insurers’] settlements with [the insured]”
• public policy favoring settlements did not merit departing from the common-law rule governing equitable contribution
• “If plaintiffs and defendants had the same obligation to defend [the insured], and plaintiffs discharged a disproportionate share of that obligation, then the right to equitable contribution arose at that point in time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).