Insurance
Oct. 4, 2005
Prompt Assumption of Duty to Defend Protects Insurers
Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - California courts long have recognized that the duty to defend is important to insureds: "The insured's desire to secure the right to call on the insurer's superior resources for the defense of third-party claims is, in all likelihood, typically as significant a motive for the purchase of insurance as is the wish to obtain indemnity for possible liability. As a consequence, California courts have been consistently solicitous of insureds' expectations on this
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