Westfield Insurance Co. v. Tech Dry, Inc. Gayle Williamson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an employer’s negligence in hiring and retaining an employee who caused a customer’s death was an accident and thus an occurrence under the employer’s insurance policy
• stating that even though state trial court decision is not binding, “this court may give weight to the decision of a trial court in determining what is the controlling law” of a particular state
• finding that coverage extended to the insured’s negligent hiring of the intentional tortfeasor
• “[A] court should determine . . . whether an insurance company has a duty to defend its insured by comparing the allegations in the underlying complaint with the terms of the insurance policy.”
• “Under Kentucky law, a court should determine at the outset of litigation whether an insurance company has a duty to defend its insured by comparing the allegations in the underlying complaint with the terms of the insurance policy.”
• interpreting accident and occurrence in tandem

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).