· 6/3/1996
Federal Case
Citations
- 84 F.3d 998
- 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 13210
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- applying Illinois law, which states that the duty to defend is broad and the insurance company must defend if the underlying suit is arguably covered by the policy
- “All that is necessary to trigger the duty to defend is that the claim be within the arguable scope of the insurance policy.”
- “All that is necessary to trigger the duty to defend is that the claim be within the arguable scope of the insurance policy.”
- “Old Republic’s suit, while moot insofar as any further duty to defend against Kearns’s 1991 suit is concerned, is not moot concerning responsibility for the costs of defense already incurred.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
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