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· 5/16/1986

Lamp, Inc. v. International Fidelity Insurance

Citations

  • 493 N.E.2d 146
  • 143 Ill. App. 3d 692
  • 97 Ill. Dec. 664
  • 1986 Ill. App. LEXIS 2246

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the defendant-counterplaintiff's right to indemnification from counterdefendant under an indemnity agreement \arose immediately upon [plaintiff's] claim regardless of [counter]defendant's liability on the underlying claim\
  • holding that the defendant-counterplaintiff’s right to indemnification from counterdefendant under an indemnity agreement “arose immediately upon [plaintiff’s] claim regardless of [counter]defendant’s liability on the underlying claim”
  • collecting cases in which a surety’s “right to settle” is triggered by the existence of a claim against that surety, not by the establishment of actual liability
  • “right to indemnification arose immediately upon [plaintiff’s] claim regardless of defendant’s liability on the underlying claim”
  • where an indemnity contract reimbursed all losses, damages, expenses, costs and attorney fees incurred, the indemnitee is “required to establish, by competent evidence, its reasonable fees and costs”

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Judges: Strouse

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