Continental Casualty Co. v. Board of Education

How courts have described this case

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• noting that insurer must pay costs of defense whether that responsibility arose from explicit “duty to defend” or from contract provision requiring insurer to pay for insured’s “‘loss,’ defined to include the cost of defense”
• apportioning defense costs between counts alleging conduct covered by insurance and those counts outside scope of coverage
• distinguishable because the school’s board of education policy contained an option clause
• comparing language “the Company shall defend any suit against the Insured alleging such bodily injury ... even if any of the allegations of the suit are groundless ...” with typical language in a Directors and Officers liability policy
• the insureds bore the burden of establishing that a given item of legal service or expense was reasonably related to defense of covered counts
• “Application of a reasonable relationship standard, as we have defined it above, will depend upon the facts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).