Baxter Healthcare Corp. v. California Insurance Guarantee Ass'n

Opinion

YEGAN, J.

Appellants Baxter Healthcare Corporation and Baxter International, Inc., sought a judicial declaration that the California Insurance Guarantee Association (CIGA) must indemnify them. Appellants paid product liability claims which would have been paid by two insurance carriers, now insolvent, of a predecessor company. We review the trial court’s decision de novo {Hunter v. Pacific Mechanical Corp. (1995) 37 Cal.App.4th 1282, 1285 [44 Cal.Rptr.2d 335]; Iverson v. Muroc Unified School Dist. (1995) 32 Cal.App.4th 218, 222 [38 Cal.Rptr.2d 35]) and conclude that it properly granted…