CONNECTICUT INS. GUAR. ASS'N v. DROWN

No. 18975.

101 A.3d 200 (2014)

314 Conn. 161

CONNECTICUT INSURANCE GUARANTY ASSOCIATION v. Joshua DROWN et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided October 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean K. McElligott , Bridgeport, for the appellants (defendants).

Kurt M. Mullen , with whom were Thomas P. O'Connor , Greenwich, and, on the brief, Mark D. Robins , pro hac vice, and Charles W. Pieterse , Greenwich, for the appellee (plaintiff).

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD, ESPINOSA and ROBINSON, Js.


ROBINSON, J.

This certified appeal presents us with two issues of first impression in Connecticut, specifically: (1) whether an insurer's preinsolvency breach of its duty to defend a claim during an underlying litigation estops the plaintiff, the Connecticut Insurance Guaranty Association (association), from contesting its obligation under the Connecticut Insurance Guaranty Association Act, General Statutes § 38a-836 et seq. (guaranty act), to pay a claim made...

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