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In re: The Trustees of Conneaut Lake PArk, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law, Tax Law
In a bankruptcy case involving 40 Pa. Stat. section 638, which prohibits insurance companies from paying fire insurance proceeds to a 'named insured'...

Gerasimos Petratos v. Genentech Inc.

Insurance Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a qui tam action under the False Claims Act involving a multi-billion dollar cancer drug, Avastin, which was developed by defendant, flied by the...

Cuevas v. Contra Costa County

Insurance Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action brought by plaintiff's guardian ad litem for medical malpractice against defendant the County of Contra Costa arising out of injuries he...

Salvati v. The American Ins. Co.

Insurance Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an insurance dispute involving the issue of whether the plaintiff in a wrongful death action, who reached a settlement with the defendants and...

General Refractories Co v. First State Insurance Co.

Insurance Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a dispute involving the rightful allocation of asbestos-related losses under thirty-year-old excess insurance policies, and to decide which of two...

Coventry Health Care of Mo., Inc. v. Nevils

Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law, Government Contracts, Insurance Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Constitutional Law
In an insurance class action arising in the context of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959 (FEHBA) authorization of the Office of...

People v. Financial Casualty & Surety

Criminal Law & Procedure, Insurance Law
Within the context of a court's forfeiture of a bail bond and the surety's entitlement to vacatur under if a defendant is later found out of state as...

Teleflex Medical Inc. v. Nat'l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh

Insurance Law
In an insured's diversity contribution action against its excess insurance carrier, the district court's judgment in favor of the insured, award of...

Walsh v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

Labor & Employment Law, Insurance Law, Contracts
In an employment suit in which the jury found that defendant breached employment agreements with plaintiff when it substantially reduced his incentive...

Mercury Casualty Co. v. Jones

Insurance Law, Administrative Law
In a challenge to the California Insurance Commissioner's denial of an application filed by an insurer-plaintiff to increase its homeowners' insurance...