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ROSEN v. STATE FARM GEN. INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In finding that sound public policy required coverage for imminent as well as actual collapse of decks attached to a home, lest dangerous conditions...

MORRISS v. PAUL REVERE LIFE INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Defendant's interpretation of plaintiff's disability policy language and the California statute governing incontestability clauses in disability...

HURVITZ v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Where an insurance policy grants to the insurer the "right and duty" to defend any claim or suit for covered injury or damage, the insurer need not...

SNOW v. FIRST AM. TITLE INS. CO.

Consumer Protection Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act's one-year statute of limitations bars recovery in cases arising from purchase of title insurance, where...

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...

SUPERFORMANCE INT'L INC. v. HARTFORD CAS. INS. CO.

Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Underlying complaints for trademark infringement did not fall under the scope of coverage as "personal and advertising injury" in plaintiff's policy,...

MINNESOTA SCH. BDS. ASS'N INS. TRUST v. EMPLOYERS INS. OF WAUSAU

Contracts, Insurance Law
There was ample evidence upon which a jury in a breach of contract action could find for an insurer on the basis of 1) plaintiff's unconditional...

LIBERTY MUT. INS. CO. v. NIPPON SANSO K.K.

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law
A purchase agreement gives defendant, in relation to the coverage plaintiff provided seller, the benefit of retro credits as well as the liability for...

INT'L HEALTHCARE MGMT. v. HAWAII COALITION FOR HEALTH

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health Law, Insurance Law
In an action alleging a conspiracy to fix prices and to boycott their plan in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. section 1, and...

EMPLOYERS INS. OF WAUSAU v. GRANITE STATE INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
A subrogation action between a primary insurer and an excess insurer was not time-barred, as the statute of limitations in such an action is that...