Shell Oil Co. v. AC & S, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an insurer was liable under Section 155 for vexatiously and unreasonably failing to provide a legal defense for an insured where trial court found that the policy required it to
• finding that \but for” causa tion exists because \[t]he injuries would not have occurred 'but for’ [the injured party’s] employment by [the named insured] and [the named insured’s] presence on [the additional insured's] premises”
• insurer was estopped for failing to take legal action prior to insured filing declaratory judgment action
• Section 155 available to insured who maintained a declaratory judgment action alleging breach of the duty to defend
• insurer was estopped for failing to take legal action prior to insured filing declaratory judgment action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).