The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, a Connecticut Corporation v. Gulf Insurance Company, a Missouri Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Under Illinois law, an insurance company that wrongfully refuses to defend a legitimately tendered claim will later be estopped from denying coverage.”
• “An insurance company is not required to intermeddle officiously where its services have not been requested.”
• “An insurance company is not required to intermeddle officiously where its services have not been requested.”
• “Mere knowledge that an insured is sued does not constitute tender of a claim . . . . An insurance company is not required to intermeddle officiously where its services have not been requested.”
• “[M]ere knowledge that an insured is sued does not constitute tender of a claim. What is required is knowledge that the suit is potentially within the policy’s coverage coupled with knowledge that the insurer’s assistance is desired.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).