Taylor v. Safeco Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that putative insured was not compelled to give insurer confidential information while defending himself after rejecting insurer’s offer to provide a defense under a reservation of rights
• finding that the insured is “not obliged to surrender control of his personal defense to an insurer which disclaimed responsibility for any judgment within policy limits that might result from the litigation”
• finding insured was not bound to accept a conditional defense and could provide its own defense at its expense and take control of the litigation and any settlement
• “[T]he insured is not required to abandon control of his own defense as the price of preserving his claim, disputed by the insurer, that the insurer pay any judgment.”
• insurance company still can challenge the reasonableness of settlement amount
• insurance company still can challenge the reasonableness of settlement amount

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).