Motiva Enterprises, LLC v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insured breached its policy by settling underlying suit without insurer’s consent, “even though [insurer] reserved its right to contest coverage and therefore did not tender to [insured] an unqualified defense”
• holding that insurer suffered prejudice as matter of law by insured's breach of consent-to-settle provision when insurer was not consulted about settlement and insurer had no opportunity to participate in or consent to settlement
• holding that insurer suffered prejudice as matter of law by insured's breach of consent-to-settle provision when insurer was not consulted about settlement and insurer had no opportunity to participate in or consent to settlement
• insurer prejudiced as matter of law when it was not consulted about settlement in underlying suit
• “An insurer’s right to participate in the settlement process is an essential prerequisite to its obligation to pay a settlement.”
• insured settled claim against it without notice to liability insurer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).