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Frontier Insurance v. State

Citations

  • 662 N.E.2d 251
  • 87 N.Y.2d 864
  • 638 N.Y.S.2d 933
  • 1995 N.Y. LEXIS 4744

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that, “when the uncontroverted facts prove that no duty to indemnify exists the insurer must be relieved of its duty to defend[]”
  • explaining that an insurer has no duty to defend “if it can be concluded as a matter of law that there is no possible factual or legal basis on which the insurer will be obligated to indemnify the insured”
  • interpreting Public Officers Law § 17(2)(a), which states that the duty to defend set forth therein “shall not arise where such civil action or proceeding is brought by or on behalf of the state”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kaye and Judges Simons, Titone, Bellacosa, Smith, Levine and Ciparick Concur in Memorandum

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