Hardy v. Hartford Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a plaintiff pleading defamation must specifically allege the defendant made defamatory statements, with malice”
• stating that while ambiguous insuring provisions must be “construed in favor of finding coverage, this rule of strict construction ‘does not authorize a perversion of language, or the exercise of inventive powers for the purpose of creating an ambiguity where none exists’ ”
• “Assuming all the allegations of the petition are true, the insurer must defend, regardless of the outcome of the suit, if there would be both (1) coverage under the policy and (2) liability to the plaintiff.” (emphasis added)
• “The insurer’s duty to defend the insured is generally broader than the duty to indemnify.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).