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Schilling v. Heavrin

Bankruptcy Law, Insurance Law
The bankruptcy court properly concluded that plaintiff could avoid the fraudulent transfer of a life insurance policy and recover the value of the...

Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Cohen

ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute concerning a disability income policy, the district court's decision to grant plaintiff-insurance company declaratory relief, finding the...

County of San Diego v. Ace Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co.

Environmental Law, Government Law, Insurance Law
Defendant-insurance company's duty to indemnify does not extend to the costs of complying with a governmental agency's environmental cleanup orders...

Powerline Oil Co. Inc. v. Super Ct. of L.A.

Environmental Law, Government Law, Insurance Law
Plaintiff's insurer is liable for governmentally imposed pollution cleanup orders where the express wording of its insurance policy is broad enough to...

Estate of Riddle v. S. Farm Bureau Life Ins. Co.

Insurance Law
In an insurance coverage dispute, a jury verdict finding that defendant-insurance company had reviewed decedent's life insurance policy in bad faith...

West Coast Life Ins. v. Ward

Contracts, Insurance Law
Plaintiff-insurance company properly rescinded a life insurance policy based on a material misrepresentation that defendant made on the insurance...

Hawthorne v. Reliance Ins. Co.

Constitutional Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
The McCarran-Ferguson Act does not bar the federal diversity statute, 28 U.S.C. section 1332, from preempting Pennsylvania's rehabilitation and...

Minter v. Great Am. Ins. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In an insurance dispute, judgment in favor of defendant-insurer, finding that it was not liable for coverage, is vacated where an issue of fact exists...

Pham v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action seeking insurance policy coverage, the tortfeasor was not an insured under his employer's business auto policy where his use of the...

McKinley v. XL Specialty Ins. Co.

Insurance Law
An insurer who has paid a claim for damage to rented equipment cannot be said to have acted in bad faith in seeking subrogation from a renter...