all - Opinion Summaries

CUNNINGHAM v. UNIVERSAL UNDERWRITERS

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Where undisputed facts show the absence of any potential for personal injury and property damage coverage under relevant policies, insurer had no duty...

MCGONNELL v. KAISER GYPSUM CO., INC.

Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
Summary judgment for cement product manufacturers in a wrongful death action for alleged asbestos exposure was proper, where no triable issues of fact...

LOPEZ v. BACA

Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A premises liability claim for gunshot injuries against a night club owner is not actionable, where the owner owed no duty to provide security guards...

LLOYD v. AM. AIRLINES

Injury & Tort Law, International Law, Transportation
In an action for damages under the Warsaw Convention after an airline crash, emotional damages are recoverable to the extent they are caused by...

GIARDINO v. BROWN

Injury & Tort Law
Assumption of risk will not bar a suit against a supplier of a horse to a children's camp, because inexperienced children riding at camp for the first...

TRACK MORTGAGE GROUP, INC. v. CRUSADER INS. CO.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
A lender holding a first deed of trust and named as a loss payee on the debtor's insurance property, who forecloses on the property and prevails in a...

HUGH SYMONS GROUP v. MOTOROLA, INC.

Contracts, Consumer Protection Law, Injury & Tort Law
A plaintiff may not assert a claim acquired by assignment, under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, where the assignor has assets of greater...

HORSLEY v RIVERA

Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Injury & Tort Law
An allegedly defamatory statement made during a television program, that an anti-abortion activist was an "accomplice to homicide", is protected under...

RUBIN v. STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO.

Contracts, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Workers' Compensation
Under Nevada law, a provision in an automobile insurance policy, excluding coverage for medical expenses resulting from bodily injury for which...

DARCANGELO v. VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Consumer Protection Law, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where an employee's complaint alleges non-fiduciary wrongful conduct on the part of her employer and an ERISA plan administrator, unrelated to their...