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GRAIN DEALERS MUT. INS. CO. v. FARMERS ALLIANCE MUT. INS. CO.

Agriculture, Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The transportation of "fly ash" should be treated as a "business pursuit" under a farmowners-ranchowners insurance policy clause that excludes...

ALLEN v. SULLY-MILLER CONTRACTING CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Civil Code section 3333.4 bars an uninsured motorcyclist from recovering non-economic losses in his premises liability action against a private...

RICH PROD. CORP. v. ZURICH AM. INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Wisconsin statutes allowing a direct action against insurers for damages caused by negligence, will not allow a direct negligence action to proceed...

BRAVO v. ISMAJ

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
After a dental patient's lawsuit against his dentist and dental insurer was dismissed, sufficient evidence established that claimant was a vexatious...

HOTZ v. BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS, INC.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
Because a claim against an insurer for unfair claim settlement practices involves a "benefit" under ERISA, removal jurisdiction was proper; claim is...

UTICA MUT. INS. CO. v. WEATHERMARK INV., INC.

Contracts, Environmental Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A repair contractor's insurer was under no contractual obligation to indemnify its insureds for costs incurred in cleaning up a fuel oil spill on the...

GOSNEY v. THE RELIABLE LIFE INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Government Law
In a tort complaint arising out of revocation of an insurance license, an insurer's communication to the Arkansas Insurance Commissioner was not part...

LOW v. GOLDEN EAGLE INS. CO.

Class Actions, Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Product Liability
An insurer shall not be required to provide a third party defense to a lawsuit for damages from diet products, where the underlying complaint is...

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

Contracts, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where an insurer, in its correspondence to its insured, did not utilize language from its own policy which would inform the insured that the...

INT'L INS. CO. v. CAJA NACIONAL DE AHORRO Y SEGURO

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Insurance Law, International Law
An Argentinian insurance and reinsurance company is not immune, under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, from posting pre-judgment security under...