Quihuis v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that an insurer in breach of its duty to defend is not bound by a Damron agreement unless the insured can separately establish a duty to indemnify
• explaining that an insurer may be liable for damages, breach of contract, and bad faith tort claims stemming from the breach of duty
• explaining that an insurer 14 may be liable for damages, breach of contract, and bad faith tort claims stemming 15 from the breach of duty
• noting “when an insurer refuses to defend ... it does so at its peril”
• “allegations of a plaintiff’s complaint generally trigger a liability insurer’s duty to defend”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).