Legal Opinion
Armstrong Cleaners, Inc. v. Erie Insurance Exchange
District Court, S.D. Indiana
Decided March 15, 2005No. 1:03CV1721DFHTABPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ENTRY ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
HAMILTON, District Judge.
This case presents a recurring conflict of interest question within law’s “eternal triangle”' — the liability insurance company, the insured, and the insurance defense attorney. The question is whether an insurer’s reservation of rights created a conflict of interest sufficient to entitle the policyholders to have their insurer pay attorneys of the policyholders’ choice to defend them in the underlying litigation. As explained below, the court finds that the reservation of rights posed, in the terms of Rule 1.7(a)(2) of the…
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- United States v. William M. Davis, Ashland, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2001
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