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· 4/24/1992

Garneau v. Curtis & Bedell, Inc.

Citations

  • 610 A.2d 132
  • 158 Vt. 363
  • 1992 Vt. LEXIS 65

How courts have described this case

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

  • resolving the question of the duty to defend on the language of the policy and the language of the complaint
  • “The insurer has a duty to defend whenever it is clear that the claim against the insured might be of the type covered by the policy.”
  • insurance policy is contract that must be interpreted according to its terms and the parties’ evident intent as gathered from language used
  • “the insurer has a duty to defend whenever it is clear that the claim with the insured might be of the type covered by the policy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Gibson, Dooley, Morse, Johnson, Peck

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