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PEOPLE v. RANGER INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
Where a surety defendant wilfully and intentionally miscalculated days in which it could extend a bail bond forfeiture, summary judgment affirmed, and...

ARNESEN v. PRINCIPI

Government Benefits, Insurance Law
Payment of interest by the federal government must be authorized by statute, and a veteran cited no statute providing authority for payment of...

FRITCHER v. HEALTH CARE SERV. CORP.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
An ERISA plan administrator's decision to deny benefits should be reviewed de novo, and its decision to confine benefits to a two-hour time period was...

JEANES v. ALLIED LIFE INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law
Insurance agents who resigned after discovering that company failed to disclose to them fee increases did not prove constructive discharge, thus...

HOME INS. CO. v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (MONTROSE CHEM. CORP. OF CALIFORNIA)

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Insurance Law
When primary and excess insurers are sued by a common insured in the same action, the interests of the two groups of insurers are substantially...

LEWIS v. MERIT SYSTEMS PROT. BD.

Government Benefits, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Any appeal of an Office of Personnel Management action denying the purchase of additional insurance lies with the district courts or the Court of...

LAWSON v. FORTIS INS. CO.

Contracts, Health Law, Insurance Law
Construing ambiguity of an insurance policy against the insurer, leukemia was not a "pre-existing condition" where an insured received treatment for a...

HALL v. UNUM LIFE INS. CO. OF AM.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Insurance Law
The court properly considered evidence of surgeries occurring after filing of an ERISA suit, though such evidence was outside of the administrative...

ARP v. AON/COMBINED INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law
Summary judgment for an insurer on a bad faith claim was improper where no medical basis nor contractual reason existed upon which an insurer could...

SEACO INS. CO. v. DAVIS-IRISH

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The definition of "you," as used in a corporation's business automobile insurance policy, does not extend to that corporation's employee acting in the...