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  • U.S. Policy Stole 8 Lives in a Truck; Why the Dying Won’t End - Juan Castillo

    Juan Castillo, Austin American-Statesman, July 28, 2017 - "Jammed into the back of a locked, pitch-black moving furnace without water or food, eight immigrants began a journey to what they thought would be a better life in America. Instead, inside...
  • Eastern District of California Finds Policy Covering “Hired” and “Borrowed” Automobiles Does Not Cover Automobiles Driven By the Insured’s Contractual Partners

    Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of America v. LK Transportation, Inc. , 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33660 (E.D. Cal. Mar. 13, 2014), [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ]. In LK Transportation , the district court found that “hired”...
  • An Insurer Has the Right to Choose Who and What It Will Insure – Courts Will not Strain to Create an Ambiguity Where None Exists

    Since insurance is nothing more than a contract between an insurer and those the insurer is willing to insure, the insurer has the unquestioned right to decide who, for what, and in what limits it is willing to insure. If the insurer and insured agree...
  • CGL Policy with Specific “Other Insurance” Clause Ruled Excess Over Auto Policy for Claim Arising out of Automobile Accident

    Employers Ins. Co. of Wausau v. Lexington Ins. Co. , 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115747 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 19, 2014), [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ] In Employers , the Central District of California found that a CGL Policy was excess...