Korte Construction Co. v. American States Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the trial court’s decision that there was no bona fide coverage dispute
• an insurer will be estopped from raising its defense of noncoverage if the insurer takes no action to adjudicate the coverage issue
• “[T]he insurer must take some action to adjudicate the issue of coverage or undertake to defend the insured under a reservation of rights, and it must take that action within a reasonable time of a demand by the insured.”
• “[w]hile there need not be a race to the courthouse,” and the insured does not trigger estoppel merely by filing first, the insured must take action within a reasonable time of a demand by the insured
• “[T]he insurer must take some action to adjudicate the issue of coverage or under‐ take to defend the insured under a reservation of rights, and it must take that action within a reasonable time of a demand by the insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).