Drexel Chemical Co. v. Bituminous Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “the obligation of a liability insurance company to defend an action brought against the insured by a third party is determined solely by the allegations contained in the complaint in that action”
• the duty to defend is determined solely by the factual allegations of the complaint in relation to the language of the insurance policy
• “[T]he scope of our inquiry in determining whether Bituminous possesses a duty to defend is confined to the averments of the pleadings.” (citation omittted)
• “If even one of the allegations [in a complaint against an insured] is covered by the policy, the insurer has a duty to defend” the insured, regardless of how many allegations in the complaint “may be excluded by the policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).