Skip to main content

all - Opinion Summaries

FILL IN AT LEAST ONE FIELD

Format is YYYYMMDD

Page 893 of 981 Showing Result 8921 - 8930 of 9802
Description Date Docket #

ANTHEM ELEC., INC. v. PAC. EMPLOYERS INS. CO.

United States Ninth Circuit
Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
General Liability policies required insurers, under California law, to defend their insured against a negligence and breach of contract suit brought...
09/05/2002 01-16402

CAFFEY v. UNUM LIFE INS. CO.

United States Sixth Circuit
Contracts, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
State-law tort and contract claims, including the tort of bad faith by an insurer, are preempted by ERISA where they seek judicial remedies for a plan...
09/03/2002 00-5983

DIAMOND OFFSHORE CO. v. A&B BUILDERS, INC.

United States Fifth Circuit
Admiralty, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff failed to show that a drilling rig was "attached" to and "erected" on the seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and thus did not...
08/30/2002 01-40366

JOHNSON v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (CALIFORNIA CRYOBANK, INC.)

California Court of Appeal
Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
A sperm bank is a health care provider under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.13(b) (imposing procedural requirements on a party claiming punitive...
08/30/2002 B155896

TEXAS FARM BUREAU MUT. INS. CO. v. SEARS

Supreme Court of Texas
Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
To find that an insurance company owed its at-will independent agent a common law duty of ordinary care, in investigating the agent's alleged...
08/30/2002 01-0851

CONSTR. MGMT. & INSPECTION, INC. v. CAPROCK COMMUNICATIONS CORP.

United States Eighth Circuit
Commercial Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
A tortious interference claimant failed to demonstrate an intentional and improper interference that induced or caused disruption in business...
08/30/2002 01-3992

GRIFFITH v. GEN. MOTORS CORP.

United States Eleventh Circuit
Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law, Transportation, Product Liability
If successful, claims that a car company's selection of a lap-belt-only design constituted a design defect would foreclose an option specifically...
08/29/2002 01-11062/11457/12408

BAGGETT v. THE INDUS. COMM'N

Supreme Court of Illinois
Administrative Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In a "mental-physical" injury case, a workers' compensation claimant need not show stress exceeding the stress of co-workers, but need only prove that...
08/29/2002 90385

DANIELS v. THE INDUS. COMM'N

Supreme Court of Illinois
Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
A decision of the Industrial Commission under the Workers' Compensation Act is vacated, because the panel that rendered it was illegally constituted,...
08/29/2002 90318

BETTERTON v. LEICHTLING

California Court of Appeal
Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Error in jury instruction on informed consent was harmless, though it encouraged the jury to evaluate a doctor's duty of disclosure solely by...
08/29/2002 A093197

Results 8921 to 8930 of 9802

Copied to clipboard