National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in the absence of a suitable reservation of rights, the insured was precluded from disclaiming liability on the basis that the claim was outside the coverage of the policy
• “We consider an application of this [preclusionary] rule abundantly justified whenever ... the insurer has not demonstrated affirmatively that assumption of the defense was nonprejudicial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).