Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company v. Dieter Reinke, Joseph Wickes, Administrator of the Estate of Charles A. Bittner

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• noting that only a person injured by the terms of a judgment is entitled to appeal
• explaining that “because of the possibility that the legal theory of the underlying suit may change, a conclusion that the insurer need not defend does not imply that it need not indemnify”
• finding the duty to indemnify is unripe until the insured has been held liable
• “Illinois treats arguments about the duty to indemnify as unripe until the insured has been held liable.”
• ex- plaining that a litigant “who cannot show how the judgment in- jured [him] in a way the court of appeals can correct, [is] not [a] proper appellant[]”
• “The duty to indemnify is unripe until the insured has been held liable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).