Nordstrom, Inc. v. Chubb & Son, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• \An insurer is not entitled . . . to re- litigate an underlying action following a settlement\
• “An insurer is not entitled . . . to re-litigate an underlying action following a 13 settlement.”
• court “need only 18 determine that the [insureds] faced a potential liability in the underlying action, and that the 19 settlement reasonably approximated their estimated exposure to liability.”
• “An insurer is not entitled ... to re-litigate an underlying action following a settlement”
• “[T]he insured need not establish 13 actual liability to the party with whom it has settled to recover the amount of settlement from the 14 insurer, so long as potential liability is shown to exist on the facts known to the insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).