Maryland Casualty Co. v. Nationwide Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining'that “[a]n insurer seeking equitable contribution need only demonstrate another insurer covered the same risk and failed to pay its share of the loss”
• “An insurer must defend any action that asserts a claim potentially seeking damages within the coverage of the policy.”
• “[Obligee] was sued for construction defects at the project. [Obligee] tendered defense of the underlying action to its own insurers ... as well as to [Principal's insurer] under the terms of the [contract].”
• additional insured covered “only to the extent [the additional insured] is held liable for [the named insured’s] acts or omissions arising out of and in the course of operations”
• “[E]ach insurer has independent standing to assert a cause of action 26 against its coinsurers for equitable contribution when it has undertaken the defense or 27 indemnification of the common insured.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).