Fuller v. Eastern Fire & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding automobile insurance carrier liable for damages resulting from refusal to defend an action within the coverage of the policy
• explaining that establish a claim for breach of contract a party must prove (1) a binding contract was entered into by the parties; (2) breach or unjustifiable failure to perform the contract; and (3) damage suffered by the plaintiff as a direct and proximate result of the breach
• \The general rule is that for a breach of contract the defendant is liable for whatever damages follow as a natural consequence and a proximate result of such breach.\
• “[AJgency may not be established solely by the declarations and conduct of the alleged agent, but such declarations and conduct are admissible as circumstances in connections with other evidence tending to establish the agency.”
• breach of contract action requires proof of damages
• breach of contract action requires proof of damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).