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HUFFY CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (WINTERTHUR SWISS INS. CO.)

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Insurance Law
None of the documents in an insurance coverage dispute involving pollution claims may remain sealed, including documents relating to settlement...

BISHOP v. NAT'L HEALTH INS. CO.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
The district court erred in finding that plaintiff's intoxication exclusion in their policy with defendant should not apply because the exclusion is...

WESTCHESTER FIRE INS. CO. v. HASPEL-KANSAS INV. P'SHIP

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
There was ample evidence in the record of an insurance subrogation action to support the district court's findings that the actions or inactions of a...

BANCO DE SEGUROS DEL ESTADO v. MUT. MARINE OFFICE, INC.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In a consolidated appeal arising out of two separate reinsurance arbitrations, plaintiff explicitly waived its immunity to the posting of pre-hearing...

LASSER v. RELIANCE STD. LIFE INS. CO.

ERISA, Insurance Law
The district court correctly found defendant's determination, that plaintiff was not disabled within the terms of his disability insurance policy,...

WALLS v. AMERISURE MUT. INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law
In a claim for insurance coverage from an automobile accident, summary judgment is reversed where the district court failed to address whether...

BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF NEW JERSEY, INC. v. PHILIP MORRIS USA INC.

Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action by insurers alleging injury due to tobacco companies' deception of public as to the negative health consequences of smoking, plaintiff's...

EDGLEY v. LAPPE

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Transportation
Insurance policy for a taxi cab in which plaintiff was injured was not ambiguous; applying the policy as it was written, the cab was not a covered...

ST. PAUL MERCURY INS. CO. v. FRONTIER PAC. INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
In an action involving contribution claims among insurers, arising from the settlement of complaints filed after a fatal crane accident, the trial...

KIRKLAND v. LEGION INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law, Sanctions
An order holding the insurer of health and welfare plan trustees in contempt was a civil order, and was thus appealable; the insurer's rehabilitation...