Walk v. Hartford Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that advertising ideas are “discrete images or text in an advertisement”
• defining a potentiality as “a reasonable potential that the issue triggering coverage will be generated at trial” (quotation marks omitted)
• distinguishing “the duty to defend,” which depends “only upon the facts as alleged” and the “duty to indemnify,” which “depends upon liability”
• explaining that “the duty to indemnify depends upon liability”
• “If there is any doubt as to whether there is a duty to defend, it is resolved in favor of the insured”
• no advertising injury when complaint only alleged that insured “violated numerous agreements with his former employer not to solicit its clients or use its proprietary information”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).