PROGRESSIVE EXP. INS. CO. v. Reed

How courts have described this case

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• holding that abatement or stay of declaratory judgment action on insurance coverage issues while underlying tort action was pending was a departure from the essential requirements of law
• holding that the claims were mutually exclusive because “[i]f [the insurance company] were to succeed in its declaratory judgment action, it would be relieved of the obligation to defend the tort action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).