Legal Opinion
Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Reserve Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided May 14, 1979No. 76-2892PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPENCER WILLIAMS, District Judge:
The Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York appeals from a declaratory judgment entered against it by the district court for the Eastern District of California. On June 18, 1974 the United States filed suit against C. W. McGrath, Inc., who was insured by Fidelity, to recover damages for the cost of suppressing a fire allegedly caused by McGrath on federal lands. Rather than seeking to intervene in that suit Fidelity instituted this separate action against Reserve Insurance Company, another McGrath insurer, for a declaratory judgment as to which policy covered…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Maryland Casualty Co. v. Pacific Coal & Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1950
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. PartridgeCalifornia Supreme Court · 1973
- Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1946
- NATIONAL AMERICAN INS. v. Ins. Co. of N. AmericaCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1977
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Takeda v. Northwestern National Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1985
- Northrop Corp. v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1983
- Jehan Zeb Mir v. Richard G. Fosburg, Perry Ah-Tye, and Horrace WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1980
- United States v. Southern California Edison Co.District Court, E.D. California · 2004
- Walsh v. CenteioCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
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