Kagele v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• a covenant not to execute coupled with an assignment will not permit an insurer to escape its obligation
• a covenant not to execute coupled with an assignment will not permit an insurer to escape its obligation
• in the context of a covenant not to execute coupled with an assignment and settlement agreement, an insurer may be liable to an injured claimant even if the insured is not
• in the context of a covenant not to execute coupled with an assignment and settlement agreement, an insurer may be liable to an injured claimant even if the insured is not
• “[A]s a condition precedent to recovery against the insurer [in assigned action], the injured party would have to prove the claim was within the coverage of the policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).