United Pacific Insurance Co. v. Hall

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to impose a duty to defend a parallel proceeding in juvenile court and noting that “the insurer has no obligation to defend an insured in criminal ... proceedings ... ”
• because juvenile proceedings against insureds' son sought no damages from insureds, insurer had no obligation to furnish counsel
• “While Cumis may prohibit an insurer from dictating the tactics of litigation, it does not delegate to [independent] counsel a meal ticket immunized from judicial review for reasonableness.”
• home owners’ insurer not required to pay for representation of minor in administrative juvenile proceeding regarding arson of a school, even though same witnesses also appeared in civil suit for damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).