Moffat v. Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Co. of New York

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Pennsylvania law, as predicted by Third Circuit, statutory bad faith claim (a) was subject to two-year tort statute of limitations period and (b) began to run with letter “unambiguously inform[ing insured] of its refusal to defend”
• admonishing that “[i]n the inspection of the complaint to determine potential coverage, the insurer cannot take the viewpoint of a common law pleader”
• also concluding that breach of contract claims were unmaintainable where underlying litigation was clearly outside policy coverage
• further noting that it would be “inefficient for plaintiff to” sue for coverage “prior to that time”, when “the defense and indemnity expenses incurred ... are- not determined”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).