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· 11/18/2015

Robert Kropilak v. 21st Century Insurance Company

Citations

  • 806 F.3d 1062
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 19951
  • 2015 WL 7273264

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[A]n insurer owes . . . no duty to its insured to enter into a consent judgment in excess of the limits of its policy.”
  • “Under Florida law, an insurer has a duty to defend its insured against any claim and alleged facts within the terms of the policy and to indemnify the insured up to the limits of the policy.”
  • “While an insurer has a duty to act in good faith to offer the policy limits under appropriate circumstances[,] . . . it has no duty on behalf of its insured to agree to a consent judgment in excess of policy limits . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tjoflat, Hull, Bartle

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