Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Villasenor

How courts have described this case

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• insurer that denies coverage has burden of showing that loss is within a policy exclusion
• ‘‘The application of this doctrine of collateral estoppel . . . is limited to those facts essential to the judgment of tort liability. An insurer, when sued upon the policy, can present any defenses not inconsistent with the judgment against its insured.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).