Pareti v. Sentry Indem. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “payment of the policy limits which does not release the insured from a pending claim (e.g., unilateral tender of policy limits to the court, the claimant or the insured
• “The concern that in some cases an insurer might attempt to circumvent its duty to defend the insured by making an ‘early escape’ from the litigation is a valid one.”
• “[T]he insurance company is held to a high fiduciary duty to discharge its policy obligations to its insured in good faith—including the duty to defend the insured against covered claims and to consider the interests of the insured in every settlement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).