Simmons v. Jeffords

How courts have described this case

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• `[A] most significant protection afforded by the policy — that of defense — is rendered a near nullity' if the duty to defend terminates upon tendering the limits
• if insurer that is unable to effect settlement may avoid defending action by paying policy limits into court, then significant protection provided by policy — defense — would be rendered a near nullity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).