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Global Hawk Insurance Co. v. Century-National Insurance Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a dispute between insurance companies over who was liable to pay benefits after the insurer of an interstate trucking company, whose employee...

County of San Bernardino v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
On petition for review of an order of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board finding that an employee was entitled to temporary disability and...

Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp.

Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability, Transportation
In a design-defect and failure-to-warn suit by the estate of a man who had mesothelioma allegedly from his exposure to asbestos in locomotives and...

Raedle v. Credit Agricole Indosuez

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a financial analyst against his former employer and his supervisor at that firm for tortious interference with a job offer from another...

Baker v. St. Paul Travelers Insurance Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Sanctions
In a case seeking to recover under the underinsured motorist (UIM) provision of an employer's automobile insurance policy: 1) the district court's...

Holloway v. Pagan River Dockside Seafood, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Admiralty, Civil Procedure
In an action by a seaman under the Jones Act alleging negligence by his employers, the district court's grant of a motion to dismiss for lack of...

Shoyoye v. County of Los Angeles

Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law
In a case asserting causes of action for false imprisonment and violation of the Tom Banes Civil Rights Act, Civil Code section 52.1, arising out of...

Posner v. Lewis

Education Law, Injury & Tort Law
In an action for prima facie tort and tortious interference with prospective contractual relations stemming from pressure and influence exerted by the...

Thomas H. v. Paul B.

Injury & Tort Law
In a defamation action alleging that the defendants falsely and maliciously stated that the plaintiff had raped and molested the defendants' daughter,...