Midwestern Indemnity Co. v. Laikin

How courts have described this case

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• finding an “absolute defense” was not surrendered but agreeing that where an insured surrenders “an obviously winning defense to all liability, that surrender would be evidence of bad faith or collusion”
• declining to take the issue of reasonableness away from the jury where it is genuinely disputed but recognizing that demonstrating unreasonableness is a high burden to meet for an insurer that has breached its duty to defend its insured
• “[T]he court believes the Supreme Court of Indiana would instruct trial courts to resolve a challenge to the reasonableness of a consent judgment with a covenant not to execute . . . ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).