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Insurance

Sep. 30, 2006

Insurer Learns It Can't Wriggle Out of Its Duty to Defend

FOCUS COLUMN - By Daniel Lee Jacobson The words used in the law are sometimes clear in meaning, yet confusing in sound. But not always.


Focus Column

By Daniel Lee Jacobson

     
      The words used in the law are sometimes clear in meaning, yet confusing in sound. But not always.
      The first two words of a recent decision were all that an insurance company seeking to avoid its obligations needed to hear: "No dice." The Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. The Spectrum Community Association,<...

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