United States Ninth Circuit

In an action by an insurer seeking a declaration that it had no obligation to defend or indemnify defendant against a certain claim because he failed to give proper notice of the claim to insurer, default judgment for plaintiffs is reversed where intervenor-Northwest Airlines should have been permitted to defend the declaratory relief action on its own.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/17/2009
• Decided 10/28/2009
• Published 10/28/2009

Judges

• CLIFTON, Circuit Judge:, Before: DOROTHY W. NELSON, MARSHA S. BERZON and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey A. Eyers and Jeffrey A. Ehrich (argued), Leonard Street and Deinard, Minneapolis, MN;  David N. Frederick and Charles H. McCrea, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, NV, for the intervenor-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Erin Fury Parkinson (argued) and Margaret Diamond, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans, LA;  Thomas J. Lincoln, Nicholas B. Salerno, and James M. Barrington, Lincoln, Gustafson & Cercos, Las Vegas, NV, for the plaintiff-appellee.