Legal Opinion

Interstate Cleaning Corp. v. Commercial Underwriters Insurance Co.

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided April 17, 2003No. 02-1899PublishedCited by 46 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

RILEY, Circuit Judge.

Interstate Cleaning Corporation (ICC) alleges Commercial Underwriters Insurance Company (Underwriters) breached its duties to defend and to indemnify against an action brought in Hawaii by Chad and Jamie Awai (Awais). On cross motions for summary judgment, the district court 2 granted Underwriters’s motion for summary judgment.

Applying Missouri law, the district court held ICC provided Underwriters with untimely notice of the Awais’ lawsuit, abrogating Underwriters’s duties to defend and to indemnify. ICC appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment, contending…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  2. Best Place, Inc. v. Penn America Insurance Co.Hawaii Supreme Court · 1996
  3. Shahan v. ShahanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1999
  4. Brown v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1989
  5. Wanda L. Bowen v. Missouri Department of Social ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2002

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3Cited by46 opinions

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  4. Eggleton v. Plasser & Theurer Export Von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft, MBHCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2007
  5. Reba Hebert v. Sbc Pension Benefit Plan, Non Bargained Program by and Through the Plan Sponsor and Administrator Sbc Communications, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004

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