Maryland Casualty Co. v. Peppers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that declaratory judgment action was premature due to overlapping issues in that action and in tort suit
• holding that the trial court in a declaratory judgment action abuses its discretion when it determines any of the “ultimate facts upon which recovery is predicated” in the underlying case
• noting that “the duty to indemnify ‘arises only if the facts alleged [in the complaint] actually fall within coverage’”
• stating that an insurer may be estopped from asserting a noncoverage defense where the insurer undertook defense of an action, but requiring prejudice to the insured as a result of the insurer’s undertaking said defense
• stating that an insurer may be estopped from assert- ing a noncoverage defense where the insurer undertook defense of an action, but requiring prejudice to the insured as a result of the insurer’s undertaking said defense
• precluding declaratory-judgment action from making ultimate factual findings that would interfere with adjudication of underlying action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).