COMMERCIAL INSURANCE CO. OF NJ v. Papandrea

How courts have described this case

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

• “duty of the insurance carrier to defend a claim is measured by the allegations upon which the claim is stated”
• declaratory judgment useful and the court should grant it when it clarifies “the legal relations of the parties or if it will terminate the uncertainty and insecurity of the controversy”
• court should not have dismissed request for declaration of insurer’s duty to defend where the decree would have the effect of “clarifying the legal relations of the parties or . . . terminating] the uncertainty and insecurity of the controversy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).