Hoyle v. Utica Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, even when the state seeks restitution from a defendant in a criminal action, the criminal case does not constitute a suit for damages
• finding that a criminal case is not a \suit for damages\ under an insurance policy
• indicating that the duty to defend is broader than the duty to indemnify, and, where a complaint does not reveal a potential for liability, there is no duty to indemnify
• “[T]he term ‘improper’ is in no way synonymous with the word ‘negligent.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).