Federal Ins. Co. v. Applestein

How courts have described this case

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• \the 'actual facts' of the situation are not pertinent\ to the duty to defend issue
• “the ‘actual facts’ of the situation are not pertinent” to the duty to defend issue
• summary judgment in favor of insured reversed where the allegations of the complaint “completely negate[d] coverage by conclusively establishing that the exclusion applies”
• the non-existence of coverage or applicability of a policy exclusion removes all obligation from the insurer to defend the action against insured
• insurer’s duty to defend an action against its putative insured is determined by the allegations of the plaintiffs complaint
• “No obligation to defend the action, much less to pay any resulting judgment, arises when the pleading in question shows either the non-existence of coverage or the applicability of a policy exclusion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).