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The Supreme Court of South Dakota has ruled that a reimbursement provision in an automobile insurance policy was ambiguous and, as a result, the insurer could not recover payments it made on behalf of its insured after he was injured in an auto accident from the settlement the insured reached with the other driver.
The Fifth Circuit has found coverage for a Mississippi county under insurance policies issued decades apart for claims of bodily injury suffered by three individuals wrongly convicted of rape and murder.
A California appellate court has affirmed a judgment against an insurance company, rejecting its broad reading of the criminal acts exclusion in its commercial general liability insurance policies.
A California court has ruled that an escrow company's professional liability insurance did not cover a claim that it negligently failed to follow a client's instructions directing it to pay current and delinquent taxes on property being refinanced.
The snail-paced resolution of insurance claims for property damage caused by a hurricane that hit Florida in 2004 will continue following an appellate court's decision in a case brought against Citizens Property Insurance Corporation.
The Tenth Circuit has ruled that the doctrine of accord and satisfaction barred insureds who accepted payment from their insurer to settle their uninsured/underinsured motorist benefits claims from seeking additional UIM benefits, even if they had not signed a release.
A federal district court in Florida has ruled that the 30-day period for an insurer to remove a coverage action began when the insureds served the insurer with their discovery responses because they contained enough information for the insurer to ascertain that the amount in controversy exceeded the jurisdictional threshold.
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