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The Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin

July 2009

Disgorge This: The Restitution Defense Meets the Duty to Defend

By Patricia A. Bronte

The restitution defense to insurance coverage proceeds from a simple and logical premise. If I steal money from you and am forced to return it, there is no loss for my insurer to reimburse because I never had a right to the money in the first place. Life is rarely so simple, however, and insurers have asserted the restitution defense — with varying degrees of success — in a broad range of situations, some having little connection to the original premise.

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