Federated Mutual Insurance v. Piedmont Petroleum Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “There is no real distinction between ‘arising out of and ‘by reason of ” for purposes of determining the degree of causation covered by liquor liability exclusion.
• an insurer has no duty to defend if the facts alleged in a complaint against an insured fail to bring the claim within the policy coverage and an insurer has no duty to defend an insured where the damage was caused by something unambiguously excluded under the policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).