National Union Fire Insurance v. Starplex Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “[w]hether an insurer has a duty to defend an action against its insured depends on two documents: the complaint and the insurance policy.”
• statements that would tend to harm a plaintiff in his or her business or profession are actionable per se without proof of special harm
• special harm is not an element of a claim for defamation per se
• “It is axiomatic that, when a trial court bases a decision on multiple grounds, an appellant may prevail on appeal only after demonstrating that all of the bases for the court’s decision were erroneous.”
• statements are per se defamatory if they “tend[] to injure the plaintiff in his or her profession or business”; only when a statement is not slander per se must a plaintiff allege special harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).