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GREEN DOOR REALTY CORP. v. TIG INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Dismissal of a declaratory action to establish excess insurance coverage is vacated, where issues of fact exist as to whether the producer of a policy...

INS. CO. OF THE WEST v. COUNTY OF McHENRY

Contracts, Insurance Law, Sanctions
Substantive duty-to-defend issues raised on appeal were rendered moot by a settlement agreement between the insurer and plaintiff in the underlying...

NAT'L AM. INS. CO. v. TRANSAMERICA OCCIDENTAL LIFE INS. CO.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In a dispute arising from reinsurance contracts, the district court correctly interpreted the parties' arbitration agreements and the applicable...

BROOKS v. AM. CENTENNIAL INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Where a reasonable person could conclude that defendant failed to review all documents from underwriters, some of which might have reflected notice of...

UNITED FIRE & CAS. INS. CO. v. GARVEY

Contracts, Insurance Law
Under Missouri law, an insurer may avoid a contract of insurance if the person requesting issuance of the policy failed to disclose he is acting as an...

CONNECTICUT INDEMNITY CO. v. DER TRAVEL SERV., INC.

Insurance Law
Under Illinois law, the underlying complaint's allegations, that defendant purposefully engaged in a scheme to defraud its customers, were clearly not...

RODRIGUEZ v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CRYSTAL B.)

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
The time for filing a claim with the Foster Family Home and Small Family Home Insurance Fund is the applicable period of limitations for the...

FEDERATED MUT. INS. CO. v. MCKINNON MOTORS, LLC.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
Where plaintiff failed to meet its burden of proof in establishing that the value of its claim satisfied the amount in controversy requirement of 28...

AM. ELEC. POWER CO. v. US

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Insurance Law, Tax Law
A corporate-owned life insurance plan was an economic sham, thus deductions of interest due on loans made against the policies from federal income tax...

S. CAROLINA MED. ASS'N v. THOMPSON

Constitutional Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) does not unconstitutionally delegate legislative function. Regulations...