Franklin v. Western National Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing insurer is required to defend claim if on notice that claim is within policy’s coverage
• recognizing ambiguities are resolved in favor of insured
• “An insurer seeking to escape the duty to defend bears the burden of establishing that all parts of a cause of action clearly fall outside the scope of coverage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).