Legal Opinion
Unigard Ins. Co. v. MUTUAL OF ENUMCLAW INS.
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided April 4, 2011No. 64516-1-IPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
250 P.3d 121 (2011)
UNIGARD INSURANCE COMPANY, a Washington corporation, Respondent,
v.
MUTUAL OF ENUMCLAW INSURANCE COMPANY, a Washington corporation, Appellant.
No. 64516-1-I.
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.
April 4, 2011.
Steven Arnold Branom, Ronald Stanford Dinning, Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA, for Appellant.
Karen Southworth Weaver, Soha & Lang PS, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.
BECKER, J.
¶ 1 Mutual of Enumclaw breached its duty of good faith to defend its insured. Because of the breach, harm to the insured was presumed and Mutual of Enumclaw had the burden to rebut this presumption.…
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