Litz v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the insurer has a duty to defend “[i]f there is a possibility, even a remote one, that the plaintiffs’ claims could be covered by the policy”
• explaining that the insurer has a duty to defend “[i]f there is a possibility, even a remote one, that the plaintiffs’ claims could be covered by the policy”
• permitting an insured to introduce extrinsic evidence where a complaint lacks allegations to establish potentiality of coverage
• the insured’s answer to the complaint is extrinsic evidence on which a potentiality of coverage may be established
• “When a question sought to be resolved in the declaratory judgment proceeding would be decided in the pending tort action, however, it is ordinarily inappropriate to grant a declaratory judgment prior to resolution of the underlying tort trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).