Doe v. Shaffer

Holding that providing liability insurance coverage to a diocese and bishop for their negligence relating to alleged sexual abuse committed by others would not violate public policy

Palmer v. Truck Ins. Exchange

In Palmer v. Truck Ins. Exch., 21 Cal. 4th 1109, 90 Cal.Rptr.2d 647, 988 P.2d 568 (1999), the California Supreme Court also held that a trademarked name was not a slogan.

Westfield Ins. Co. v. Tech Dry, Inc.

Finding that coverage extended to the insured's negligent hiring of the intentional tortfeasor

Delgado v. Trax Bar & Grill

Finding restaurants, bars, and shopping centers have affirmative duty to reasonably secure premises against reasonably foreseeable criminal acts of third parties

Lisa M. v. Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital

Holding that although a hospital technician's sexual assault of a patient was enabled by his employment, the tort was not foreseeable and did not arise out of emotions engendered by the job

State v. Allstate Ins. Co.

Holding that the policy holder must do more than speculate that some polluting event may have occurred suddenly and accidentally

Minkler v. Safeco America

Holding that to permit a severability of insurance clause to prevail over a plainly worded exclusion for intentional acts “would effectively nullify a policy exclusion in the case of married coinsureds, since one coinsured spouse could always demand coverage for the excluded tortious act of the other on the mere basis of derivative community property liability”

Garvey v. State Farm Fire Casualty Co.

Concluding “the question of causation is for the jury to decide” because the record contained sufficient evidence to support either of two causal possibilities

State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Partridge

Holding "all ambiguities in an insurance policy are construed against the insurer-draftsman"

Delgado v. Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club

Distinguishing a case that focused on an insurance policy's exclusionary clauses from the case at hand which focused on a policy's coverage clause

Rule 8.520 - Briefs by parties and amici curiae; judicial notice