John Burns Construction Co. v. Indiana Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the insured \had the right to choose which insurer would be required to defend and indemnify it\
• concluding that the named insured — rather than the insurance company — controls which of its insurance policies will be triggered
• holding that the insured \had the right to choose which insurer would be required to defend and indemnify it\ and refusing to give effect to the \other insurance\ clauses in the insurance contracts
• noting that “an ‘other insurance’ provision does not in itself overcome the right of an insured to tender defense of an action to one insurer alone”
• where construction company paid a premium for its own liability insurance and also negotiated its additional insured status as a bargained-for benefit of its subcontract
• where construction company paid a premium for its own liability insurance and also negotiated its additional insured status as a bargained-for benefit of its subcontract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).