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· 5/5/1994

Twin City Fire Insurance Company v. Country Mutual Insurance Company

Citations

  • 23 F.3d 1175
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 10109
  • 1994 WL 169612

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that Illinois’s duty to settle is an “implied correlative” of the insurer’s control over the defense
  • noting that in Illinois the duty to settle is “an implied correlative” of insurer’s control over the defense
  • “equitable defenses [such as estoppel] are defenses to legal as well as to equitable claims”
  • “Do insurance companies need the protection of tort law against their own insureds and other insurance companies? We need not answer these questions.”
  • \that duty [good faith] is founded on the insurance contract itself\
  • author of particular article must be shown to be an authority

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Judges: Posner, Easterbrook, Ripple

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