Legal Opinion
Quackenbush v. Allstate Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 28, 1997No. Nos. 96-56132, 96-56506 and 96-56654PublishedCited by 61 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TROTT, Circuit Judge:
OVERVIEW
California Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush brought this action in his role as liquidator of the Mission Group of Insurance Companies (“Mission”) against Allstate Insurance Company (“Allstate”) to recover monies owed by Allstate to Mission under a number of reinsurance agreements. The core dispute between the parties centers on whether, under California insurance law, Allstate should be allowed to offset its obligations to Mission with debts owed by Mission to Allstate under other reinsurance agreements, or instead should be forced to pay its debts to…
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