Home Insurance Co. v. National Union Fire Insurance of Pittsburgh

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the insurance company that had entered into a loan receipt agreement could pursue contribution because it had “reserve[ed] its right to seek reimbursement from other insurers”
• stating duty to defend arises when insured gives insurer notice of lawsuit and “the opportunity to defend”
• noting remedy for breach is to afford the non-breaching party the benefit of the bargain
• applying duty-to-defend principles in a dispute over whether the underlying lawsuit was brought against the insured entity
• “[C]ourts are to construe pleadings liberally.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).