Legal Opinion
Griffin v. Allstate Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided August 27, 2001No. 46498-1-IPublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
29 P.3d 777 (2001)
L. Dennis GRIFFIN and Marilyn Griffin, husband and wife, and their marital community, Appellants,
v.
ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, Respondent.
No. 46498-1-I.
Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 1.
August 27, 2001.
Pellegrino L. Certa, Thomas Lether, Clarke Bovingdon Cole, Mills Lether PC, Seattle, for Respondent.
Randall C. Johnson, Badgley-Mullins Law Group, Seattle, for Appellants.
ELLINGTON, J.
Subject to policy based defenses, an insurer is liable for fees and costs incurred before the insured tenders defense of a covered claim. We therefore reverse…
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