Jorge v. Travelers Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that an insurance carrier did not act voluntarily where it accepted coverage, defended a lawsuit, and settled a judgment in order to “avoid entanglement in insurance coverage litigation” with another insurer
• holding volunteer status should be interpreted narrowly because \public policy favors the prompt payment of claims made by an insured against an insurer and disfavors assertion by an insurer of technical defenses to avoid liability on the policy\
• “[I]nterests in preserving business relationships, in controlling the defense of the action, and in avoiding entanglement in complex insurance coverage litigation more than suffice to prevent [insurer] from being labeled a volunteer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).