Vandaatselaar v. Town of Hempstead

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insured may recover legal fees incurred in defending itself in a declaratory judgment action brought by insurer, but not for those incurred in prosecuting cross claims and counterclaims against insurers
• holding, in a case where the insurer brought a declaratory judgment action and the insured filed a counterclaim, that 60% of the costs were attributable to defending and 40% to prosecuting
• \The insured may recover for defending but may not recover for prosecuting cross-claims and counterclaims.\ (citing Johnson v. Gen. Mut. Ins. Co. , 24 N.Y.2d 42 , 50, 298 N.Y.S.2d 937 , 246 N.E.2d 713 (1969) )

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).