California Court of Appeal

In determining whether an insurance company set aside proper reserves to cover claims, the insured need not show that insurance company set reserves outside the range of permissible decisions that other carriers could have made, but only that they were set at the reasonable expectation of the claim's value.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/23/2001
• Published 07/23/2001

Judges

•  BOREN, P J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Mahoney, Coppenrath & Jaffe, Walter G. Coppenrath, Jr., Howard M. Jaffee, Arthur L. Martin;  Sheldon & Mak, Marilyn M. Smith;  Edward J. Horowitz, Los Angeles, for Plaintiff and Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Horvitz & Levy, Christina J. Imre, H. Thomas Watson, Encino;  Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Christina J. Imre, Raymond A. Cardozo;  Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, Ray L. Wong, San Francisco, and Vipal Patel, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant., Finnegan, Marks & Hampton, Michael A. Marks and Ellen Sims Langille, San Francisco, for California Workers' Compensation Institute as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.