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The duty to defend is a contractual indemnitor or liability insurer's duty to defend the insured or indemnified party against claims. It is generally broader than the duty to indemnify and may cover defense against claims where ultimately no damage is awarded, and possibly even against claims that would not be covered by the duty to indemnify. [1]
Even areas that impose a duty to retreat generally follow the "castle doctrine", under which people have no duty to retreat when they are attacked in their homes, or (in some places) in their vehicles or workplaces. The castle doctrine and "stand-your-ground" laws provide legal defenses to persons who have been charged with various use-of-force ...
State v. Abbott, 36 N.J. 63, 174 A.2d 881 (1961), [1] is a landmark case in the American legal doctrine of retreat.In it, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously adopted a duty to retreat—a legal requirement that a threatened person cannot stand one's ground and apply lethal force in self-defense, but must instead retreat to a place of safety. [2]
Stein said it’s his duty to defend the laws of the state, even if he doesn’t always agree with them. “Now, if those laws are unconstitutional, then that’s a different question.”
A reservation of rights permits an insurer to fulfill its broad duty to defend [4] while avoiding waiver, estoppel, or forfeiture of rights [5] or being bound by a judgment entered against its policyholder [6] and serves to warn the policyholder to take steps to protect oneself from the reserving insurer. [7]
The Justice Department is preparing to defend its use of diversity policies in choosing an independent monitor to oversee a plea agreement with Boeing Co., setting up a potential clash with a ...
Unlike the duty to defend, the duty to indemnify extends only to those claims or causes of action in the plaintiff's complaint which are actually covered under the policy, since a final judgement against the insured would normally be supported by a factual record in the trial court showing exactly why the plaintiff prevailed (or failed to ...
Excluding the 1.3 active-duty military personnel and 600,000 U.S. Postal Service employees, the government employs about 2.4 million federal workers, according to a 2024 Pew Research report.