Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Vanhuss

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insurer’s initial representation that the insured was covered and its initial agreement to defend him did not estop it from later denying coverage given that the insured did not detrimentally rely on the decision to defend the suits
• holding that insurer's initial representation that the insured was covered and its initial agreement to defend him did not estop it from later denying coverage given that the insured did not detrimentally rely on the decision to defend the suits
• “An insurer’s duty to defend turns on the language of the insurance contract and the allegations of the complaint asserted against the insured.”
• estoppel requires detrimental change in position in reliance on conduct of party to be estopped
• estoppel requires detrimental change in position in reliance on conduct of party to be estopped
• insurance company not estopped to seek declaratory judgment that it had no duty to defend based upon its earlier decision to defend underlying lawsuit; no detrimental reliance resulted from defense provided by insurer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).