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GULF USA CORP. v. FED. INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Under a crime and theft policy, an insured must report a potential loss to insurer when insured knows facts that would allow a prudent person to...

LENNING v. COMMERCIAL UNION INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Homeowner's insurance policy did not cover claim that insured breached contract in construction and sale of home to third party even if insured...

LANCASTER v. AM. & FOREIGN INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Excess insurance policy requirement that insured list primary policies in application unambiguously excluded coverage of unlisted primary policy.

UNDERWRITERS AT LLOYD'S v. LABARCA

Insurance Law
Where the risk to a ship is readily capable of being resolved at all times by a simple expedient, the shipowner's warranty of seaworthiness remained...

ATTWOOD v. ASHCROFT

Admiralty, Insurance Law
Where petitioner pled guilty prior to the enactment of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, he was entitled to a hearing on his request...

CINCINNATI INS. CO. v. E. ATL. INS. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Intent to injure or expectation of injuring is not an element of the tort of defamation, as it is of tortious interference with contract or with...

STATE FARM FIRE & CAS. CO. v. EWING

Insurance Law
Under Minnesota law, an insured can maintain two households for insurance coverage purposes.

DUMONT v. SASKATCHEWAN GOV'T. INS.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law, International Law
Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a foreign insurance policy that required arbitration in a Canadian jurisdiction precluded application of...

NATIONWIDE INS. CO. v. CENT. MISSOURI ELEC. COOP., INC.

Insurance Law
Under Missouri law, an "occurrence" for coverage purposes coincides with the occurrence of damages and not the negligent act.

COMMERCIAL UNDERWRITERS INS. CO. v. AIRES ENVTL. SERVS. LTD.

Insurance Law
Where the insured had only a limited involvement with the scene of an serious accident, and promptly gave notice to the insurer upon being named in a...