Hartford Accid. & Indem. Co. v. Superior Court of San Diego Cty.

Opinion

FROEHLICH, J.

This writ petition arises from the effort by real party in interest Landmark Insurance Company (Landmark) to extricate itself from a “bad faith” lawsuit. Landmark’s insured had alleged that numerous insurers including Landmark had provided coverage for a claim, that they had failed to defend and indemnify in connection with that claim, and that this failure breached their contracts as well as the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The insured later settled with Landmark. As a condition to settling, Landmark required that it be extricated from the nonsettling…