Terre Haute First National Bank v. Pacific Employers Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding bank’s negligent administration of a guardianship was “professional relationship,” not an “accident”
• finding a claim for the bank's negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in acting as plaintiff's guardian was not covered as an accident or occurrence under a liability insurance policy
• “[T]he insurer’s duty to defend is determined from the allegations of the complaint and from those facts known to or ascertainable by the insurer after reasonable investigation.”
• “‘Insurance policies are contracts between private parties; we cannot rewrite the policy nor make a new or different policy, but must enforce the terms of the policy as agreed upon by the parties.’”
• insured asserting estoppel must establish prejudice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).