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SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS INC. v. ZURICH INS., CO.

Insurance Law
In a builder's insurance coverage claim, this court certified the following questions to the Florida Supreme Court for determination: 1) whether the...

FULLER v. HARTFORD LIFE INS. CO.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Where decedent was a lifelong resident of Arkansas, and received credit card insurance application and billing statements there, Arkansas law applied...

SHEEHAN v. MOREHEAD

Bankruptcy Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
Payments made to a Chapter 7 debtor under a privately purchased disability insurance policy are partially exempt from the bankruptcy estate under West...

SNAPP & ASSOC. INS. SERVS., INC. v. MALCOLM BRUCE BURLINGAME ROBERTSON

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law
In a suit alleging conversion, because broker plaintiff knew of potential claims against defendant for his retention of commissions on the insurance...

SIGMON COAL CO., INC. v. APFEL

Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Public Utilities, Transportation
For purposes of assigning fiscal responsibility for a retired coal miner's health benefits when the assigned coal operator is no longer in business,...

BECHTEL PETROLEUM OPERATIONS v. CONTINENTAL INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Insurers had no duty to defend plaintiff, because the absolute pollution exclusions in the insurance policies operated to exclude coverage for bodily...

COKER v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law
Despite the fact that an administrative law judge found that insured met the disability insured status requirement of the Social Security Act, plan...

NAT'L CITY BANK, N.W. v. COLUMBIAN MUT. LIFE INS. CO.

Banking Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
Where defendant insurance company had a contractual right of recoupment or setoff for unearned premiums advanced to its agent, and the agent also gave...

HIH MARINE INS. SERVS., INC. v. GATEWAY FREIGHT SERVS.

Commercial Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Summary judgment dismissing plaintiff's subrogation action against defendant cargo handler was affirmed because defendant was entitled to offset a...

LAWYERS TITLE INS. CORP. v. REX TITLE CORP.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Although Maryland law does not permit an insurance company that has entered into an agency contract with an insurance agent to assert a claim of...