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Kacha v. Allstate Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
A judgment confirming an insurance appraisal award involving property damaged by a wildfire is reversed pursuant to an insured's claims that: 1) the...

Safeco v. Superior Ct. (Century Sur. Co.)

Civil Procedure, Construction, Evidence, Insurance Law
In an action for equitable contribution by a settling insurer against a nonparticipating insurer, the settling insurer has met its burden of proof...

Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London v. Rigby

Insurance Law
A review proceeding is dismissed pursuant to a determination that jurisdiction was improvidently granted.

Wellman v. Geico Gen. Ins. Co.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Summary judgment in favor of an insurer is affirmed where the insurer effectively cancelled an insured' automobile insurance policy prior to the time...

Jim Black & Assocs. v. Transcontinental Ins. Co.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
A trial court's determination that an insurer was entitled to its defense costs, fees, and expenses that it incurred while defending an insured in a...

United Fire & Cas. Co. v. Hixson Bros. Inc.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In a declaratory action over an insurer's duty to defend its insured, partial summary judgment for defendant-insured is affirmed where allegations in...

Graham v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Defendants' motion to dismiss an action arising from a motor vehicle collision is granted and the claims against all defendants are dismissed for...

Crisco v. Mandarano

Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Landlord Tenant Law
In a contract dispute arising from a commercial lease entered into between the parties where the premises at issue burned down, defendants-landlords'...

Windom v. Ungerer

Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice
In a suit involving plaintiff's injuries in a football practice and expired insurance coverage for a league, summary judgment for defendants is...

Ross v. Nat'l Ctr. for the Employment of the Disabled

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, M&A, Securities Law
Denial of a bill of review to set aside a default judgment against a party is reversed where the court of appeals erred in requiring a party to act...