Insurance Co. of North America v. Coffman

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• observing that defenses founded on a lack of basic coverage “may not be waived merely by the company’s failure to specify them in its initial response to the claim, for the effect of that would be to expand the policy to create a risk not intended to be undertaken by the company”
• after denying coverage under policy definition, insurer may later rely on exclusion
• defenses founded upon lack of basic coverage may not be waived merely by the company’s failure to specify them in its initial response to the claim, for the effect of that would be to expand the policy to create a risk not intended to be undertaken by the company

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).