Great West Casualty Co. v. Marathon Oil Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Illinois law, insurer’s duty to defend includes a duty to pay the costs of insured’s successful prosecution of a third-party indemnification and contribution action, and collecting cases
• duty to defend requires insurer to bring affirmative counterclaims that would reduce insured’s liability on underlying claim
• duty to defend requires insurer to 13 bring affirmative counterclaims that would reduce insured's liability on underlying claim
• “[c]laims and actions seeking third-party contribution and indemnification are a means of avoiding liability just as clearly as is contesting the claims alleged to give rise to liability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).