In the event that the insurer protects, it might either shield the case with its own in-house lawyers, or give the case to an outside law firm on a "board" of favored firms which have arranged a standard charge plan with the insurer in return for an ordinary stream of work. On the off chance that there is an obligation to protect, it implies the insurer must guard the insured against the whole lawsuit regardless of whether a large portion of the cases or reasons for activity in the complaint are plainly not secured.
It sends a letter to the insured reserving its rights to promptly pull back from the insured's resistance on the off chance that it turns out to be clear there is no inclusion or no potential for inclusion for the whole complaint, and to recoup from the insured any assets used to that point on defending against a specific cases or reasons for activity which were never secured or even potentially secured in any case. A few jurisdictions allow extrinsic proof to be considered, either in light of the fact that it is explicitly portrayed in the complaint or it is significant to the actualities explicitly alleged in the complaint.