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RAIL SERVS. OF AM. v. STATE COMPENSATION INS. FUND

Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation, Sanctions
In an action for alleged misconduct related to premiums defendant charged plaintiff for workers' compensation insurance, because plaintiff willfully...

SPORT SUPPLY GROUP, INC. v. COLUMBIA CAS. CO.

Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
In an action alleging that an insurer was required to reimburse plaintiff for part of the cost of defending a counterclaim for trademark infringement,...

WESTOIL TERMINALS CO., INC. v. INDUS. INDEM. CO.

Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Water Law
In an action for damages arising out of an order to clean up groundwater contamination at property owned by plaintiff, the trial court properly...

BAROCO W., INC. v. SCOTTSDALE INS. CO.

Construction, Insurance Law
In an action against an insurer for failing to defend in a homeowners' action for negligent construction of a private residence, there was no...

BEACH v. HARCO NAT'L INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Insurance Law
Arbitration in an uninsured motorist proceeding did not involve petitioning within the meaning of the anti-SLAPP statute, and permitting anti-SLAPP...

SINGH v. PRUDENTIAL HEALTH CARE PLAN

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
Although ERISA completely preempts plaintiff's state-law claims for reimbursement of monies paid to defendant pursuant to a subrogation term in its...

HAMEID v. NAT'L FIRE INS. OF HARTFORD

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
The term "advertising injury" as used in the commercial general liability policy at issue requires widespread promotion to the public, such that...

ALLEN v. COMM'R OF LABOR

Cyberspace Law, Government Benefits, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employee who regularly works from her out-of-state residence by electronic link-up to her employer's workplace in New York is not entitled to...

VENNEMANN v. BADGER MUT. INS. CO.

Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Plaintiff's property was vacant for purposes of his homeowner's policy, and the district court did not err in applying the policy's vacancy exclusion,...

ROBERTS v. UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
As both an initial offer and rejection, and a later offer and rejection were invalid to limit uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage under Ohio law,...