State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Flynt

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the duty to defend should be fixed by the facts which the insurer learns from the complaint, the insured, or other sources”
• “[A] cause of action for damages for trade libel 18 requires pleading and proof of special damages in the form of pecuniary loss.”
• extrinsic evidence may create, but not eliminate, duty to defend

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).