California Court of Appeal

In an action by a city against an insurance company seeking indemnification arising from a lawsuit by homeowners involving a landslide that occurred as a result of the city water district's negligent maintenance of its water system, judgment of the trial court in favor of the defendant-insurance company is affirmed as, exclusion x in the policy plainly and precisely explained to the city that the peril of land subsidence, including landslides, was not covered, regardless of the cause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2009
• Published 12/17/2009

Judges

• NARES, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Levine Steinberg Miller & Huver, Harvey R. Levine, Craig A. Miller, San Diego;  and Ronald R. Ball, City Atty., for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Rebecca R. Weinreich and Stephen Vincent Kovarik, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Respondent.