Iowa National Mutual Insurance v. Universal Underwriters Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating, “The obligation is several and the carrier is not entitled to divide the duty nor require contribution from another absent a specific contractual right.”
• stating, \The obligation is several and the carrier is not entitled to divide the duty nor require contribution from another absent a specific contractual right.\
• expressing Minnesota’s preference for a contract-based approach because insurer’s obligation to defend “is a contractual right of the insured irrespective of other insurance and irrespective of primary or excess coverage” (citation omitted)
• “The obligation to defend is a separate undertaking from the duty to provide coverage and pay a judgment.”
• “The controversy between the two insurance carriers who have no contractual relationship to each other cannot operate to alter the obligation that each owes unto the insured, with whom they each have a contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).