Woo v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing duty to defend when claims against the insured are conceivably covered
• noting that the insurer’s burden in a duty to defend case is “to determine if there are any facts in the pleadings that could conceivably give rise to a duty to defend” (emphasis added) (citation omitted)
• recognizing duty to defend when claims against the insured are conceivably covered
• noting the insurer may 14 rely on extrinsic facts to trigger, but not to deny, its duty to defend
• duty to indemnify 4 “hinges on the insured’s actual liability to the claimant and actual coverage under the policy”
• \The insurer may not rely on facts extrinsic to the complaint to deny the duty to defend—it may do so only to trigger the duty.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).