National Indemnity Company v. Flesher

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insurer has a duty to “defend when the suit alleges facts within an exception to the policy but the true facts are within, or potentially within, the policy coverage and are known or reasonably ascertainable to the insurer”
• liability insurer’s duty to defend when facts within coverage, even though alleged claim was within exception
• extrinsic evidence may be used to prove that claim is within policy's coverage where complaint itself does not allege covered claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).