Oda v. Highway Insurance

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SCHWARTZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding denying plaintiffs the relief sought. Multiple parties and multiple causes of action are involved. The principal plaintiffs-appellants are Rae Naiditch, individually, and Irving Naiditch and Saul R. Bernstein, as executors of the last will of Albert Naiditch, and Kenneth Oda (insured plaintiffs). The principal issue involves the duty of a public liability ^insurer where conflicts of interest arise between insurer and insured and between the insured codefendants…