Foremost Insurance v. Wilks

How courts have described this case

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

• finding reservation of rights letter alone not sufficient to trigger insurer’s duty to pay for independent counsel
• “[T]he existence of a 17 conflict depends upon the grounds on which the insurer is denying coverage. If the 18 reservation of rights arises because of coverage questions which depend upon the 19 insured’s own conduct, a conflict exists.”
• claim for punitive damages does not create conflict of interest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).