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  • Tustin Field Gas and Food, Inc. v. Mid-Century Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2017-07-05
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Transportation
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-07-03
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Murray M. Sinclair & Associates and Murray M. Sinclair for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Tharpe & Howell, Timothy D. Lake and Eric B. Kunkel, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. B268850

    Impairment of underground storage tank's structural integrity did not constitute "collapse" for purposes of insurance coverage (Hoffstadt, J.)

  • Duarte v. Pacific Specialty Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2017-07-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Insurance | Real Estate
    Date Filed: 2017-06-12
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Appellant: Matthew R. Stall, Felipe R. Parker.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Respondent: Lee J. Danforth, Kathryn C. Klaus, Coddington, Hicks & Danforth.
    Case Number: No. A143828

    Ambiguity of questions on insurance application precluded finding that applicant knowingly withheld responsive information (Miller, J.)

  • Zubillaga v. Allstate Indemnity Company

    Publication Date: 2017-06-20
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-06-19
    Court: C.A. 4th
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Office of Kyle J. Scott and Kyle J. Scott for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Peter H. Klee, Karin Dougan Vogel and Joseph E. Foss, for Defendant and Respondent.
    Case Number: No. G052603

    Good faith dispute doctrine did not relieve insurer of obligation to investigate insured's treatment recommendations (Thompson, J.)

  • Mahan v. Charles W. Chan Insurance Agency, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-06-05
    Practice Area: Elder Law | Trusts and Estates | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-06-02
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Majors & Fox and Frank J. Fox; Law Offices of Mary A. Lehman and Mary A. Lehman for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
    for defendant: David M. Zeff, Samuel G. Ware, and Sara B. Allman for Defendants and Respondents Charles W. Chan Insurance Agency, Inc., Chung Wing Chan, Jr. and Omar Kaddoura.
    Case Number: No. A147236

    Insurance agents' scheme to undermine elderly couple's estate plan properly alleged to be elder abuse (Streeter, J.)

  • California Fair Plan Association v. Garnes

    Publication Date: 2017-05-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-05-26
    Court: C.A. 1st
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, Raul L. Martinez, Elise D. Klein for Plaintiff and Respondent.
    for defendant: Hereford Kerley, Law Office of Dylan Schaffer, Kerley Schaffer, J. Edward Kerley, Dylan L. Schaffer for Defendant and Appellant.
    Case Number: No. A143190

    Measure of damages under fire insurance policy for partial loss not limited to fair market value of home (Stewart, J.)

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  • Southern Insurance Company v. Workers Compensation Appeals Board

    Publication Date: 2017-05-23
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Transportation
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-05-10
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stockwell, Harris, Woolverton & Muehl, Alexander G. Abdoulin and George Woolverton for Petitioner.
    for defendant: Margaret W. Hosel and Anne Schmitz for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.
    Case Number: No. B278412

    Workers' compensation insurance policy may be rescinded (Chavez, Acting P.J.)

  • Talana Orzechowski v. The Boeing Company Non-Union Long-Term Disability Plan, Plan Number 625

    Publication Date: 2017-05-11
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Insurance Law | Transportation
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Date Filed: 2017-05-11
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Cormac J. Carney, District Judge, Presiding Before: Alex Kozinski and Jay S. Bybee, Circuit Judges, and Donald E. Walter,* District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell George Petti (argued), Los Offices of Russell G. Petti, La Canada, California; Glenn R. Kantor and Peter S. Sessions, Kantor & Kantor LLP, Northridge, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Keith Alberts, Matthew G. Kleiner, Jessica Wolff, Michelle L. Steinhardt, and Adelle Greenfield, Gordon & Rees LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees.
    Case Number: No. 14-55919

    De novo review applied to employer disability plan's denial of benefits (Bybee, J.)

  • Friedman v. AARP, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-05-03
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Non–Profit
    Date Filed: 2017-05-03
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Dean D. Pregerson, District Judge, Presiding Before: Richard C. Tallman, Barrington D. Parker, Jr.* and Morgan Christen, Circuit Judges.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Love (argued) and Susan K. Alexander, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Francisco, California; Kevin K. Green, Frank J. Janecek, Jr., and Christopher Collins, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, California; Stuart A. Davidson, Mark J. Dearman, and Christopher C. Martins, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Boca Raton, Florida; Sean K. Collins, Boston, Massachusetts; Michael F. Ghozland, Ghozland Law Firm, Los Angeles, California; for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    for defendant: Brian D. Boyle (argued) and Meaghan VerGow, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C.; Christopher B. Craig, Los Angeles, California; for Defendants-Appellees UnitedHealth Group, Inc. and United HealthCare Insurance Company.
    Case Number: No. 14-56765

    Plaintiff adequately stated claim based on AARP's alleged unlicensed sale of Medigap insurance in California (Parker, J.)

  • Coventry Health Care of Missouri, Inc. v. Nevils

    Publication Date: 2017-04-18
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Health Care | Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-04-18
    Court: U.S. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: No. 16–149

    Contractual subrogation and reimbursement rights of federal employees' private health insurance carriers override state laws barring subrogation and reimbursement (Ginsburg, J.)

  • Stein v. AXIS Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2017-04-07
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Date Filed: 2017-03-08
    Court: C.A. 2nd
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Law Offices of James N. Fiedler and James N. Fiedler for Plaintiff and Appellant.
    for defendant: Bowman and Brooke, Julian G. Senior and Marion V. Mauch; BatesCarey, Ommid C. Farashahi, Michael T. Skoglund and Tiffany Saltzman-Jones for Defendants and Respondents AXIS Insurance Company and AXIS Capital Holdings Limited.
    Case Number: No. B265069

    Liability policy expressly covered company officer's criminal defense costs on appeal (Chaney, J.)