Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
It is well settled that an insurance carrier can be relieved of its duty to defend if it establishes, as a matter of law, that there is no possible factual or legal basis on which it might eventually be obligated to indemnify its insured under any policy provision (see Spoor-Lasher Co. v Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co.,
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