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ISRAEL-CURLEY v. CALIFORNIA FAIR PLAN

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
Code of Civil Procedure section 340.9, which lifts the limitations bar on filing lawsuits against insurance carriers based on damages suffered in the...

RIDGLEA ESTATE CONDO. ASS'N v. LEXINGTON INS. CO.

Insurance Law
In an insurance coverage dispute, summary judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where the district court erred in not requiring defendant to show...

STARVING STUDENTS, INC. v. DEPT. OF INDUS. RELATIONS

Constitutional Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
When a penalty is assessed against an employer who obtains workers' compensation insurance from an insurer who is not authorized to write compensation...

Hobbs v. Hartford Ins. Co.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In consolidated appeals related to whether an insured may aggregate the limits of liability for underinsured-motorist coverage where multiple vehicles...

KALAMAZOO ACQUISITIONS v. WESTFIELD INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for breach of a contract for commercial property insurance, plaintiff is barred from bringing the action on the ground that it entered...

EMCASCO v. DIEDRICH

Criminal Law & Procedure, Insurance Law, Juvenile Law
Defendant's intentional acts of criminal sexual molestation, committed while assisting at his parent's daycare, were excluded from coverage under...

EMPIRE HEALTHCHOICE v. MCVEIGH

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit for reimbursement of insurance benefits, dismissal of the action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed where plaintiff's...

PMI MORTGAGE INS. CO. v. AM. INT'L

Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an insurance policy coverage dispute, judgment in favor of defendant-insurer is reversed where the plain text of the plaintiff's policy and the...

STEPHENSON v. ARGONAUT INS. CO.

Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a suit for indemnification, dismissal of plaintiff's claim is affirmed where defendant-insurance company's policy is not ambiguous and no potential...

C3 ENTM'T, INC. v. GALLAGHER & CO.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
Under the one final judgment rule, a trial court may not enter judgment in favor of one defendant, triggering an appeal, if that judgment is based on...