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Custom Rail Employer Welfare Trust Fund. v. Geeslin

Administrative Law, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an injunctive and declaratory action brought by an employee welfare benefit plan against the Texas Commissioner of Insurance to require the state...

McAninch v. Wintermute

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Securities Law
In a breach of contract action brought by former bank directors against their insurer, an insurer may not avoid its duty to indemnify under a D&O...

Thomas v. Miller

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought against plaintiff's former employer and supervisor for health benefits under the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA),...

Allstate Ins. Co. v. Blount

Contracts, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurer's declaratory judgment suit seeking a determination that a homeowner's insurance policy it issued to defendant did not provide coverage...

Burns v. California Fair Plan

Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In case where home was destroyed by fire and insurer paid insured on a pro rata basis according the value of their interests in the property, summary...

Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Auto Club of S. Cal.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In bad faith refusal to defend action arising from underlying personal injury action where settling defendant assigned his rights against his insurer,...

Caliber One Indem. Co. v. Wade Cook Fin. Corp.

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a case arising from a commercial property insurance policy plaintiff issued to defendant, summary judgment finding that the contract between the...

US v. McAuliffe

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Insurance Law, Sentencing
A municipal court judge defendant's convictions for mail fraud, using fire to commit mail fraud, and related counts arising from a scheme to collect...

Shields v. Gov't Employees Hosp. Ass'n, Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Remedies
In a declaratory action brought against plaintiff's two insurers involving the proceeds of a third-party tort settlement she received after she...

Zeigler Coal Co. v. Office of Worker's Comp. Programs

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
A coal company's petition for review of an award of black lung benefits to a mine worker is denied, and the award affirmed, over petitioner's...