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Raffelini v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law
A "serious injury" exclusion in a supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist endorsement to an automobile liability policy is enforceable.

Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Mid-Continent Ins. Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In a suit between two liability insurers in which plaintiff-Liberty Mutual sought to recover from defendant a portion of the sums it paid to settle a...

Hamilton v. Standard Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
In an action brought against an insurer arising from its reduction of the amount of death benefits paid to plaintiff under a policy covering her...

Commercial Money Ctr., Inc. v. Illinois Union Ins. Co.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a dispute over an insurer's obligations, which arose within part of multidistrict litigation resulting out of the collapse of plaintiff-bankruptcy...

Med. Protective Co. v. Kim

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law, Remedies
In an insurance-coverage dispute involving back-to-back claims-made medical malpractice liability policies issued by two different insurers, a...

Clifton v. Am. Family Mut. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In a breach of contract suit against an insurer and affiliates involving defendant's termination of a contract which permitted plaintiff, as an...

Liberty Life Assurance Co. v. Gilbert

Civil Procedure, Debt Collection, Family Law, Insurance Law
In life insurance companies' interpleader and declaratory relief action brought to determine who was due annuity payments originally received by a...

State of California v. Farmers Group, Inc.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In case involving defendants-insurers' handling of total vehicle loss claims, judgment on the pleadings for defendants is affirmed as Insurance Code...

Killingsworth v. HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection Law, Debt Collection, Insurance Law
An amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) eliminating private rights of action has an impermissible retroactive effect when applied to FCRA...

Tuepker v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an interlocutory appeal arising from Hurricane Katrina's destruction of plaintiffs' home and defendant-State Farm's refusal to compensate...