California Court of Appeal

A ruling that defendant-mail order company had engaged in a deceptive business practice by charging its customers an insurance fee is reversed where the ruling incorrectly presumed that defendant, rather than its customers, bears the loss of risk in transit.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/02/2005
• Published 09/02/2005

Judges

• STEIN, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Severson & Werson, Donald J. Querio, Katherine A. Knopoff, San Francisco, Grippo & Elden LLC, Charles S. Bergen, George R. Dougherty, Maile H. Solis, Chicago, IL, for Defendant and Appellant Brawn of California, Inc., Levy, Ram & Olson LLP, Arthur D. Levy, Heather M. Mills, Wayne L. Lesser, San Francisco, for Plaintiffs and Respondents Jacq Wilson et al., AARP Foundation Litigation, Barbara Jones, Thomas Osborne, Michael Schuster, Washington, DC, for AARP, Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Respondents Jacq Wilson et al.