Legal Opinion
North Counties Engineering, Inc. v. State Farm General Insurance
California Court of Appeal
Decided March 13, 2014No. A133713PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RICHMAN, J.
North Counties Engineering, Inc. (NCE), an engineering company, and Gary Akerstrom, its president (sometimes, collectively, appellants), were sued in 2004 in two lawsuits that sought property damage arising out of the construction of a dam completed in 1999. Appellants tendered defense of the lawsuits to State Farm General Insurance Company (State Farm), under a business policy it had issued to NCE effective 1997. State Farm rejected the tender, a position it maintained for several years, until September 2007, when State Farm recognized that its position had been based on a…
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