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FARMERS INS. CO. v. PIERROUSAKOS

Insurance Law
Step-down clause in automobile insurance policy located in "other insurance" section of policy did not create ambiguity when separated from "insured...

HENNING v. CONT'L CAS. CO.

Insurance Law
Insurance policy provision that precludes suit against insurer for any damages not determined by jury trial or consensual settlement with insurer does...

SHELTER INS. COS. v. HILDRETH

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Professional Malpractice
Under Arkansas law, naprapathy services are "professional services" for purposes of the professional services exclusion in a business insurance...

CONSTR. PROTECTIVE SERVS., INC. v. TIG SPECIALTY INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Insurer had duty to defend its policy holder where policy holder sued third party and third party pled an offset in the answer rather than making a...

INS. CO. OF N. AM. v. ABERDEEN INS. SERVS., INC.

Insurance Law
Where the insured was responsible for damages resulting in delay of project completion, and coverage extended to "all other direct or indirect or...

FREEMAN v. ALLSTATE LIFE INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Insured had duty to disclose to insurer that she suffered from epilepsy despite insured's subjective belief that her epilepsy was not serious, and...

WALKE v. GROUP LONG TERM DISABILITY INS.

Insurance Law
When an insurer issues a policy with ambiguous claims submission language commonly used in non-ERISA contexts, there is a presumption of no intent to...

MORRIS COUNTY NAT'L BANK v. JOHN DEERE INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Article 6.15 of the Texas Insurance Code does not impose a duty on an insurer to notify its insured's mortgagee of the policy's impending expiration...

KEMPER INS. COS. v. FED. EXPRESS CORP.

Insurance Law, Transportation
The released value doctrine does not invalidate the $100 limitation of liability provided for in the relevant shipping documents simply because...

COMMERCIAL UNION INS. CO. v. SEA HARVEST SEAFOOD CO.

Admiralty, Insurance Law
The term "derangement or breakdown of the refrigeration machinery" as used in marine insurance contracts does not apply to the failure to operate the...