TIG Insurance Co. v. Dallas Basketball, Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• the sending of unsolicited advertisements by fax fell within advertising injury coverage of commercial general liability policy
• insured’s action of sending unsolicited faxes in violation of TCPA constituted “advertising injury” under provision covering damages from “[ojral or written publication of material that violates a person’s right of privacy”
• plain and ordinary meaning of the word “publication,” which was not defined in the policy, cannot include only the communication of offending material to a third party
• the sending of unsolicited advertisements by fax fell within advertising injury coverage of commercial general liability policy
• insured’s action of sending unsolicited faxes in violation of TCPA constituted “advertising injury” under provision covering damages from “[o]ral or written publication of material that violates a person’s right of privacy”
• “[T]o the extent the insured pays for his own defense and seeks to be reimbursed for these payments, his claim for reimbursement is not a claim under the policy but rather a common law claim for damages.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).