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· 4/7/1989

Mutual of Enumclaw v. Harvey

Citations

  • 772 P.2d 216
  • 115 Idaho 1009
  • 1989 Ida. LEXIS 59

How courts have described this case

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  • observing that “the [insurance] [c]ompany has the right to control the defense”
  • affirming I.C. § 41-1839 award of fees to judgment creditor at trial and awarding additional fees under that section on appeal
  • construing \costs\ pursuant to its plain meaning -- rather than any technical legal meaning -- to include all expenses of litigation, including reasonable attorney's fees
  • A reservation of rights “is not a destruction of the insured’s rights nor a creation of new rights for the [insurer]”; rather, “[i]t preserves that to which the parties had originally agreed.”

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Judges: Bistline, Bakes, Huntley, Johnson, McFadden, Tern

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