Inhabitants of Salem v. Inhabitants of Lynn

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in the context of an excess judgment, breach of the insurance contract subjects an insurer to liability for expectation and consequential damages, which may exceed the policy limits
• recognizing contract liability for breach of the duty to defend
• “Courts have 2 indemnify. The duty to indemnify provides those insured financial protection against 3 judgments, while the duty to defend protects those insured from the action itself.”
• “In Nevada, [the duty to defend] arises if facts [in a lawsuit] 18 are alleged which if proved would rise to the duty to indemnify, which then the insurer must 19 defend.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).