Keithan v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• stating that Connecticut law requires indemnification up to the policy limits if insurer breaches the duty to defend, without regard to whether there existed a duty to indemnify
• “an insurer’s duty to defend ... is determined by reference to the allegations contained in the [underlying] complaint”
• lessee's liability insurer was under no contract duty to provide a defense for worker who was in fact not an insured under policy, simply because a third party had alleged facts which if true would have given worker the status of an insured
• “Where a complaint in an action ... states a cause of action against the insured which appears to bring the claimed injury within the policy coverage, it is the contractual duty of the insurer to defend the insured in that action .... ”
• 37 Conn. L. Rptr. 819, 822

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).