Auto-Owners Insurance Co. v. Brubaker

FRANK, Chief Judge.

This matter arises from an automobile accident and an underlying claim which Auto-Owners Insurance Company was obligated to defend. Auto-Owners raises several points in its appeal from a partial summary judgment and a multi-million dollar final judgment entered in favor of Neva Brubaker and Julie L. Farber. Brubaker and Farber claim that Auto-Owners.breached its duty to defend them and refused in bad faith to settle a *1055claim asserted against them which terminated in a default judgment. The duty of an insurance carrier to defend an insured is adequately defined in our opinion…