Harbor Insurance Company v. Continental Bank Corporation

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• indicating that the court should look beyond the specific allegations in the complaint only to find evidence that unnamed persons \contributed materially to the fraud\
• observing that mend the hold doctrine does not make sense at the pleading stage because “Rule 8(e)(2) permits a party to state as many separate claims or defenses as the party has regardless of consistency”
• “To allow the insur[er] ... an allocation between the directors’ liability and the corporation’s derivative liability for the directors’ acts would rob [the insured corporation] of the insurance protection that it sought and bought.”
• “it is a detail whether the director or officer first incurs an expense to a plaintiff which Continental then reimburses or Continental pays the plaintiff directly. The latter route is merely more direct; it cuts out' the middleman”
• analyzing Illinois state law on mend the hold
• analyzing Illinois state law on mend the hold

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