Patrick v. Head of the Lakes Cooperative Electric Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insurer must pay for defense after it declined to provide a defense and coverage was found to exist
• construing a policy covering damages neither expected nor intended, the court held that the insured was entitled to coverage on trespass claim where the insured had a mistaken belief that it had authority to cut trees
• construing a policy covering damages neither expected nor intended, the court held that the insured was entitled to coverage on trespass claim where the insured had a mistaken belief that it had authority to cut trees
• when an insurer refuses to defend, it loses the right to control the defense or the settlement of the action
• when an insurer refuses to defend, it loses the right to control the defense or the settlement of the action
• the phrase requires consideration of \the state of mind of the actor as it relates to the resultant damage\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).