This appeal arises out of a dispute between Nine Island Avenue Condominium Association (Association) and unit owners of boat slips (slip owners) at Nine Island over who is responsible for the cost of reconstruction of the marina and boat slips, destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 1999. After the hurricane, the Association assessed each slip owner a proportionate share of the $701,050 reconstruction. S... More...   $0 (09-21-2011 - FL)

Allstate Insurance Company appeals the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of James E. Reeves and the denial of its motion for summary judgment, both arising from a homeowner’s insurance policy claim that resulted from tornado damage to Reeves’s property. The trial court sustained Reeves’s motion for summary judgment as to Count I of Reeves’s First Amended Petition (“the P... More...   $0 (12-21-2010 - MO)

This diversity suit for breach of an insurance contract was dismissed on summary judgment. The suit is governed, so far as the substantive issues are concerned, by Indiana law, and the plaintiff’s appeal presents issues of both contract interpretation and Indiana insurance law.

Mrs. Luster was a widow living alone in her house in Merrillville, Indiana. She had a homeowner’s insurance po... More...   $0 (03-25-2010 - IN)

This diversity suit for breach of an insurance contract was dismissed on summary judgment.

The suit is governed, so far as the substantive issues are concerned, by Indiana law, and the plaintiff’s appeal presents issues of both contract interpretation and Indiana insurance law.

Mrs. Luster was a widow living alone in her house in Merrillville, Indiana. She had a homeowner’s insur... More...   $0 (03-23-2010 - IN)

This is a tort suit brought in federal district court under the diversity jurisdiction by a bricklayer (and his wife, who is claiming loss of consortium).

It is governed, so far as the substantive issues are concerned, by Illinois law. The plaintiff was seriously injured when he fell off a scaffold while working on the renovation of Soldier Field, the big Chicago athletic stadium. His emplo... More...   $0 (09-30-2009 - IL)

David Wilcox owned and rented a house and outbuildings in Dodge County, Minnesota. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company (Farm Bureau) insured the properties against fire and other perils. The tenants moved out unexpectedly in June 2004. Wilcox removed all their possessions by early August and undertook various repairs. On November 21, 2004, Wilcox discovered that water running from an open ... More...   $0 (08-28-2007 - MN)

{1} Appellant Farmers Alliance Insurance Company appeals from the Court of Appeals' opinion reversing summary judgment in its favor on Appellee Cary Battishill's claim under a homeowner's policy. See Battishill v. Farmers Alliance Ins. Co., 2004-NMCA-109, 136 N.M. 288, 97 P.3d 620. The question on appeal is whether the policy section covering all risks except "vandalism and malicious mis... More...   $0 (01-09-2006 - NM)

When Palacin tendered a claim to Allstate for water damage to her walls and floors, Allstate denied the claim, stating that the damaged item... More...   $0 (06-24-2004 - CA)

This is an appeal from the summary judgment rendered by the trial court in favor of the defendant Design Learned, Inc. (Design Learned), in an action for negligence.1 The plaintiff, Best Friends Pet Care, Inc. (Best Friends),2 raises several claims on appeal, all of which concern the applicability of a waiver of subrogation clause in a construction contract. We affirm in part and reverse... More...   $0 (06-03-2003 - CT)

In a pending civil action captioned "Helen Volquardson, Plaintiff vs. Hartford Insurance Company of the Midwest, Defendant," No. 4:00CV3340, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska certified six questions of state law to this court under the procedure established by Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 24-219 through 24-225 (Reissue 1995). We accepted the certification request and hereby answer the cer... More...   $0 (07-12-2002 - NE)