Thompson v. Maryland Casualty Co.

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• holding that the filing of a lis pendens may form the basis of a claim for malicious prosecution
• “If there is a split of authority interpreting an insurance policy provision, then the provision may be ambiguous.”
• A duty to defend may arise “[w]hen all the elements of a 12 Appellate Case: 23-1248 Document: 64-1 Date Filed: 02/24/2025 Page: 13 claim covered by a policy are alleged, . . . even if a claim is not labeled according to the terms used in an insurance policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).