Mt. Airy Insurance v. Greenbaum

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the duty to defend may be triggered even if the allegations of the underlying complaint are baseless
• stating that an insurer is obligated to defend a claim that falls within a policy’s coverage “[e]ven if the claim is baseless, as it is the claim which determines the insurer’s duty to defend”
• \There is . . . no duty to defend a claim that is specifically excluded from coverage\ under Massachusetts law
• “a mere scintilla of evidence will not be sufficient to defeat a 22 properly supported motion for summary judgment; rather, the nonmoving party must introduce 23 some significant probative evidence tending to support the complaint”
• “A Bivens action cannot be maintained against a federal agency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).