Western World Ins. Co. v. Travelers Indem. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting the distinctions between a general liability insurance policy and a statutory penal bond for purposes of considering indemnification
• refusing to grant attorney's fees to a surety who was subrogated to the rights of its principal
• “The surety, unlike the liability insurer, however, is entitled to be indemnified by the one who should have performed the obligation.”
• “[T]he usual view, grounded in commercial practice, [is] that suretyship is not insurance.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).