Harbor Insurance v. Central National Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• Under minority rule, “tortfeasor could purchase a policy such as this after committing the tort and thereby enjoy excess coverage for its yet-to-be unfolded consequences.”
• “[U]nder traditional rules of grammar and usage the antecedent to the modifying clause here comprises the immediately preceding list of torts.”
• element of favorable termination “is not part of the wrong”, but a “precondition for the cause of action”; “focus” and “gist” of wrong is institution of underlying suit
• “[a]lthough favorable termination thus serves to confirm the element of lack of probable cause, the focus of the wrong is upon the institution of the suit, with malice and without such probable cause”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).