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DENNY'S, INC. v. WORKERS' COMP. APPEALS BD.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
An employee's injury claim was outside a guarantor's indemnification responsibility, where the employer made the business decision to opt for...

INDIANA INS. CO. v. PANA COMMUNITY UNIT SCH. DIST. NUMBER 8

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In interpreting a blanket insurance policy, the district court properly found that a building was never insured under blanket coverage, and a "zero"...

TRAN v. FARMERS GROUP, INC.

Contracts, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
An attorney-in-fact, acting as an insurer's managerial agent and deriving its authority from a power of attorney executed by an insured, owed the...

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC. v. ONTARIO AIRCRAFT SERVS., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
An insurer's failure to comply with its obligation by regulation, to inform a third party claimant of the statutory time limits pertaining to a claim,...

POWERINE OIL CO., INC. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CENTRAL NAT'L INS. CO.)

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Indemnification language in excess/umbrella liability policies obligated an insurer to indemnify its insured for expenses incurred in responding to...

SCIREX CORP. v. FED. INS. CO.

Health Law, Insurance Law
A drug testing firm was entitled to payment under a "Blanket Employee Dishonesty" Policy, for firm employees' dishonest acts during clinical trials...

HILLENBRAND v. INS. CO. OF N. AM.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A jury's finding of an insurance company's malicious prosecution of two lawsuits is supported by substantial evidence. Civil Code section 2351 does...

INSUA v. SCOTTSDALE INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
An insurer was not precluded by Insurance Code section 554 from denying liability for pre-tender expenses incurred to defend an underlying action,...

GREEN MACHINE CORP. v. THE ZURICH-AM. INS. GROUP

Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
An insurer had no duty defend and indemnify a corporation in an underlying patent infringement action, as the claims did not fall within "advertising...

KAPSIMALLIS v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The analysis in Prudential-LMI Com. Insurance v. Superior Court, 51 Cal.3d 674 (1990), was fully applicable to a bad faith insurance case involving...