California Automobile Insurance Company

• Boardman Petroleum, Inc., D.B.A. Red & Jack Oil Company, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Federated Mutual Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee. Federated Mutual Insurance Company, a Minnesota Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Boardman Petroleum, Inc., a Georgia Corporation D.B.a Red & Jack Oil Company, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Appellant, Fireman'S Fund Insurance Company, a California Corporation, D.B.A. American Automobile Insurance Company, Defendant-Cross-Claimant., 135 F.3d 750 (11th Cir. 1998)

Raymond G. Chadwick, Jr., R. Perry Sentell, III, Kilpatrick & Stockton, LLP, Augusta, GA, for Boardman Petroleum, Inc. Richard R. Mehrhof, Jr., Allgo...

• Federal Circuits

• Debbie Foltz, Plaintiff, Consumer Action; United Policyholders; Texas Watch, Intervenors, and Tierney Adamson; Kevin Snead; Daniel P. Johnson, Intervenors-Appellants. v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation; California Institute of Medical Research & Technology, Inc., a Foreign Corporation Dba Comprehensive Medical Review; Ralph Householder; Steven Becker, Defendants, v. April Jean Ho; Jim Mathis, Plaintiffs-Intervenors. Debbie Foltz, Plaintiff, and Tierney Adamson; Kevin Snead; Daniel P. Johnson, Intervenors-Appellants, v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, an Illinois Corporation, Defendant-Appellee, and California Institute of Medical Research & Technology, Inc., a Foreign Corporation Dba Comprehensive Medical Review; Ralph Householder; Steven Becker, Defendants, v. April Jean Ho; Jim Mathis, Plaintiffs-Intervenors. Debbie Foltz, Plaintiff, April J. Ho; Jim Mathis; Tierney Adamson; Kevin Snead; Daniel P. Johnson, Intervenors, and Consumer Action; ..., 331 F.3d 1122 (9th Cir. 2003)

Lawrence Walner, Chicago, IL, and Thomas D. D'Amore, Portland, OR, for intervenors-appellants Tierney Adamson, Kevin Snead, and Daniel P. Johnson. Ka...

• Federal Circuits

• Insurance Company May Bring 500 Jobs ; Automobile Claims Center Arriving From California

Colorado Springs' job market received a shot in the arm Tuesday when the California State Automobile Association said it will move a claims center here that eventually will employ as many as 500 people. The announcement represents the most new jobs planned locally by an expanding or relocating employer in more than two years, said John Cassiani, executive vice president of marketing for the Greater Colorado Springs Economic Development Corp.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• July 14, 2004

• Auto Insurer Entitled to Reimbursement, Rules California Supreme Court

An automobile insurance company was entitled to reimbursement for its payment of medical benefits, even though its insured was not "made whole" by her personal injury settlement when taking into account her attorney fees, the California Supreme Court has ruled. The plaintiff was injured in an automobile accident and the defendant paid $1,000 in medical benefits under the terms of its insurance policy.

• Lawyers USA
• August 27, 2009

• Notice: Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3 Provides that Dispositions Other Than Opinions or Orders Designated for Publication Are Not Precedential and Should Not Be Cited Except When Relevant Under the Doctrines of Law of the Case, Res Judicata, or Collateral Estoppel. American Casualty Company; National Surety Corp; Industrial Indemnity Company; U.S. Fire Insurance Company; the Indiana Automobile Insurance Plan; the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Transportation Services, Inc.; James Beck; Cindy Stine Izzo; Allan Campbell; James Hutchinson; Jim Lynch; Tommy Spivey; Imc, Inc.; Wayne Collier; Barney L. Kielmeyer; Ohio State Service Agency; Olympic Express, Inc.; Barton Friend; H. Robert Schroeder, Defendants-Appellees., 956 F.2d 274 (9th Cir. 1992)

Before SNEED, BEEZER and TROTT, Circuit Judges. MEMORANDUM** American Casualty Company and fiv...

• Federal Circuits

• Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye Wins Second Decision from California Court of Appeal, Protecting Consumers from Automobile Insurance Company Abuses.

LOS ANGELES -- For the second time in six months, the California Court of Appeal has handed down a decision protecting consumers from unlawful insuran...

• Business Wire
• October 18, 2004

• Historic Change in Auto Insurance; Ftcr Hails Move by First Auto Insurance Company to End Zip Code Rating System, Comply with Prop 103

SANTA MONICA, Calif., July 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) hailed today's announcement by the Automobile Club of Southern California that it would become the first company to implement Insurance Commissioner Garamendi's regulation requiring auto insurance companies to cease the practice of ZIP-code rating, as required by Proposition 103. Auto Club, the fourth largest insurer in California, said premiums would be lowered by an average $134 for 88 percent of its nearly one million California policyholders. The announcement was made at a Los Angeles press conference where FTCR founder Harvey Rosenfield, the author of Proposition 103, joined Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi and Thomas V. McKernan, the President of the Auto Club of Southern ...

• U.S. Newswire
• July 10, 2006

• In Assault and Battery Case, California Limits Duty to Defend

In Jonathan Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California, a suit for damages was brought against Craig Reid, who was insured under a homeowners insurance policy issued by the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California. The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal and affirmed the trial court, because an accident is an unexpected, unforeseen, or undesigned happening or consequence from either a known or unknown cause. The Supreme Court concluded that an insured's unreasonable belief in the need for self-defense does nut turn the resulting purposeful and intentional act of assault and battery into "an accident" within the policy's coverage clause. Therefore, the insurance company had no duty to defend its insured in the laws...

• American Agent & Broker
• Vol. 81 Nbr. 10, October 2009

• A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Mercury General Corporation and Its Operating Subsidiaries.

...) and ICRs of "a-" of American Mercury Insurance Group (AMI) (Oklahoma City, OK) and its members. C...* Mercury Casualty Company . * Mercury Insurance Company . * California Autom...

• Business Wire
• October 31, 2011

• A.M. Best Affirms Ratings of Mercury General Corporation and Its Operating Subsidiaries.

...) and ICRs of "a-" of American Mercury Insurance Group (AMI) (Oklahoma City, OK) and its members. C...* Mercury Casualty Company . * Mercury Insurance Company . * California Autom...

• Business Wire
• October 06, 2010