John J. Donnelly v. Transportation Insurance Company, Continental Casualty Company

How courts have described this case

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

• “If a complaint, however ambiguous, may be read as premising liability on alternative grounds, and either ground states liability potentially or arguably covered by the policy, the insured is entitled to a defense.”
• “If part of a plaintiff’s claims against an insured fall within the coverage of a policy and part do not, the [insurance] company should defend all, although it might eventually be required to pay only some claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).