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Modification: Pinto v. Farmers Insurance Exchange
Judgment entered in favor of plaintiff in his bad faith insurance claim was reversed because jury made no finding that insurer acted unreasonably. 		Insurance 2DCA/1 Mar. 22, 2021
Villanueva v. Fidelity National Title Company
Immunity under Insurance Code Section 12414.26 does not extend to insurers charging rates not yet filed with the Insurance Commissioner. 		Insurance CASC Mar. 19, 2021
Pinto v. Farmers Insurance Exchange
Judgment entered in favor of plaintiff in his bad faith insurance claim was reversed because jury made no finding that insurer acted unreasonably. 		Insurance 2DCA/1 Mar. 10, 2021
Gray v. Quicken Loans
Civil Code Section 2954.8 does not require plaintiff's lender to pay interest on plaintiff's hazard insurance proceeds unless there was a written agreement between the parties to pay the interest. 		Insurance 2DCA/6 Mar. 4, 2021
Guastello v. AIG Specialty Insurance Company
Triable issue of fact existed regarding when insurer's obligation to provide coverage was triggered under an occurrence policy. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 Feb. 23, 2021
St. Mary & St. John Coptic Orthodox Church v. SBC Insurance Services, Inc.
Insurance policy's 60-day vacancy provision unambiguously counted backwards from the date of the loss, regardless of property ownership. 		Insurance 1DCA/4 Nov. 25, 2020
Truck Insurance Exchange v. AMCO Insurance Co.
Because liability arose from restaurant's use of premises, landlords were additional insureds under restaurant's insurance policy; thus, landlord's insurer was entitled to equitable contribution. 		Insurance 2DCA/4 Oct. 28, 2020
Dones v. Life Insurance Co. of North America
Trial court erred in sustaining insurance company's demurrer because plaintiff's allegations that insurance company waived precondition to coverage were sufficient to withstand demurrer. 		Insurance 1DCA/2 Oct. 9, 2020
Axis Reinsurance v. Northrup Grumman
An excess insurer may not challenge underlying insurer's payment decision as outside the scope of coverage absent showing of fraud or bad faith. 		Insurance 9th Sep. 15, 2020
Modification: Ghazarian v. Magellan Health, Inc.
To avoid bad faith liability, it is not enough that insurer's ultimate decision might be considered reasonable at first glance. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 Sep. 2, 2020
Oak Valley Hospital Dist. v. State Dept. of Health Care Services
Defendant failed to prove that plaintiff received double compensation for in-house medical treatment of its employees. 		Insurance 3DCA Aug. 13, 2020
Ghazarian v. Magellan Health
To avoid bad faith liability, it is not enough that insurer's ultimate decision might be considered reasonable at first glance. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 Aug. 12, 2020
Carter v. Pulte Home Corporation
Trial court did not violate its own in limine orders and did not deny appellant's right to a fair trial. 		Insurance 1DCA/2 Jul. 24, 2020
SantaFe Braun v. Ins. Co. of North America
Trial court erred in interpreting the policies to require horizontal exhaustion of all primary and underlying excess insurance coverage before accessing coverage under the excess policies. 		Insurance 1DCA/3 Jul. 15, 2020
Modification: Montrose Chemical Corp. of California v. Superior Court (Canadian Universal Insurance Co.)
Insured was entitled to access otherwise available coverage under any excess policy once it exhausted directly underlying excess policies for same policy period. 		Insurance CASC Jun. 1, 2020
501 East 51st Street etc. v. Kookmin Best Ins. Co., Ltd.
Trial court correctly determined that there was no material dispute whether defendant's denial of plaintiff's insurance claim, based on its expert report, was in good faith. 		Insurance 2DCA/8 Apr. 20, 2020
Montrose Chemical Corp. of California v. Superior Court (Canadian Universal Insurance Co.)
Insured was entitled to access otherwise available coverage under any excess policy once it exhausted directly underlying excess policies for same policy period. 		Insurance CASC Apr. 7, 2020
Kanovsky v. At Your Door Self Storage
Trial court properly granted defendant's motion for summary judgment because plaintiffs contracted to accept risk, elected to be self-insured and then retroactively demanded to be paid for water damage. 		Insurance 2DCA/8 Nov. 27, 2019
Wishnev v. The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Exempt lenders under Article XV of the California Constitution are not required to advise borrowers in writing that they are charging compound interest. 		Insurance CASC Nov. 15, 2019
California Insurance Guarantee Assoc. v. Azar
California Insurance Guarantee Association, not a primary plan under Medicare regulations, had no obligation to reimburse the Center for Medicare Services for conditional payments made on behalf of workers' compensation insureds. 		Insurance 9th Oct. 11, 2019
Target Corporation v. Golden State Ins. Co. Limited
Insurance company was not required to defend retailer against customer's lawsuit because there was no 'minimal causal connection' between the product distributed by its insured and customer's injury. 		Insurance 2DCA/6 Oct. 11, 2019
McHugh v. Protective Life Insurance
Insurance Code Sections 10113.71 and 10113.72 only applied to term life insurance policies issued or delivered after January 1, 2013, so they could not apply to the relevant policy as appellants claimed. 		Insurance 4DCA/1 Oct. 10, 2019
Terrell v. State Farm General Ins. Co.
Owner's maintenance of rental home was not an activity ordinarily incident to nonbusiness pursuits and thus insurance claim fell under business pursuits exclusion of homeowners insurance policy. 		Insurance 1DCA/1 Sep. 30, 2019
Southern Cal. Pizza Co., LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's London
Disbursements for losses and work-related expenditures fell outside the scope of the parties' wage and hour exclusion under insurance policy; thus, judgment sustaining defendant's demurrer reversed. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 Sep. 24, 2019
Universal Cable v. Atlantic Specialty Ins.
District court erred in holding that war exclusion in television production insurance policy should be understood in its plain and ordinary sense instead of applying special meaning of terms in insurance context. 		Insurance 9th Jul. 15, 2019
People v. Suh
Insurance fraud under Penal Code Section 550 requires only that the claim be characterized by deceit, and no actual misstatement of fact in the claim is required. 		Insurance 2DCA/7 Jul. 10, 2019
McMillin Homes Construction v. Natl. Fire & Marine Ins. Co.
Insurance company owed general contractor duty to defend homeowner claim where subcontractor shared control of project; care, custody or control exclusion requires exclusive or complete control. 		Insurance 4DCA/1 Jun. 7, 2019
Modification: Mercury Insurance Co. v. Lara
Trial court's ruling that Insurance Companies' 'broker fees' were not premium because they were charged for separate services was barred by collateral estoppel; thus, writ of mandate vacated. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 Jun. 6, 2019
Jozefowicz v. Allstate Ins. Co.
Plaintiff could not prevail under Section 3309 of California Uniform Commercial Code where insurance company issued check to contractor as plaintiff's representative and contractor transferred check to bank. 		Insurance 4DCA/3 May 30, 2019
Mazik v. GEICO General Insurance Co.
Insurance company's regional liability administrator who had authority over the settlement of claims fit the definition of 'managing agent' involved in any act of bad faith under Civil Code Section 3294(b). 		Insurance 2DCA/2 May 20, 2019
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