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AM. INDEM. LLOYDS v. TRAVELERS PROP. & CAS. INS. CO.

Construction, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
District court's dismissal with prejudice of an insurer's suit under Texas law, seeking to recover one-half of funds it paid in settlement and...

AM. INS. ASS'N v. GARAMENDI

Constitutional Law, Insurance Law, International Law
California's Holocaust Victim Insurance Relief Act of 1999, requiring any insurer doing business in that state to disclose information about certain...

CENTURY SURETY CO. v. UNITED PAC. INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Where three primary insurers and one excess insurer included "other insurance" clauses in their policies, the excess insurer is liable to contribute...

KHATCHATRIAN v. CONTINENTAL CAS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Under California insurance law, an "accidental" death must occur from external rather than natural causes, thus an insured's death from a stroke was...

TRINITY UNIVERSAL INS. CO. v. STEVENS FORESTRY SERV., INC.

Attorney's Fees, Insurance Law
Under Louisiana law, an insurer is not required to reimburse its insured for attorneys' fees and costs the insured incurred in hiring independent...

ACC CONSTR. CO., INC. v. CGU

Construction, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a commercial general liability insurance policy that defines "occurrence" as an "accident", coverage is triggered if the underlying act was...

CAT INTERNET SERVS., INC. v. PROVIDENCE WASHINGTON INS. CO.

Cyberspace Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Under Pennsylvania law, trademark infringement through misuse of a domain name for the purpose of selling pornographic materials and magazines,...

MID-AM. TITLE CO. v. TRANSNATION TITLE INS. CO.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
In a diversity suit for breach of contract brought by a title insurance agent against an underwriter, insufficient evidence existed for a jury to find...

MUSMECI v. SCHWEGMANN GIANT SUPER MARKETS, INC.

Class Actions, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's grocery voucher plan is governed by ERISA, and a self-insured retention in a policy covering an employer's liability for employee...

ST. MARY'S FOUNDRY, INC. v. EMPLOYERS INS. OF WAUSAU

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The plain language of a business property insurance policy excluded from property coverage the insured's patterns used in production of castings, thus...