Posts Tagged ‘Case’
Court sides with insurer in coverage exclusion case
January 13th, 2010
Insurers and plaintiffs attorneys filed amicus briefs in the case of Tayarie Trayshaun Baker vs. National Interstate Insurance Co. et al. The case stems from an April 2001 bus collision that claimed the life of bus owner and driver La Shaun Clemmons.
In 2000, Ms. Clemmons purchased a bus from Four Winds Day Camp Inc., an Inglewood, Calif., bus company now called Four Winds Inc. Four Winds had coverage under a CGL policy issued by American National Fire Insurance Co. that included a widely used products and completed operations hazards exclusion, court records show.
Four Winds also contracted to inspect the bus it sold to Ms. Clemmons.
Following Ms.
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Supreme Court rejects appeal in Ford Explorer rollover case
November 30th, 2009
The case, Ford Motor Co. vs. Benetta Buell-Wilson et al., twice went before the nation’s highest court. On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected the automaker’s latest appeal, which had argued that California’s product liability laws were too vague and that the court needed to clarify the due process that manufacturers face in such cases.
The Supreme Court, which rejected Ford’s appeal without comment, ended five years of appeals.
Ms. Buell-Wilson and her husband sued Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford as a result of a 2002 crash that left her a paraplegic. Ms. Buell-Wilson swerved to avoid a piece of metal that dropped off a vehicle in front of her, and the 1997 Explorer she was driving rolled over, according to court documents.
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