Red Lion Hotels, Inc. v. Commonwealth Insurance Co. of America

In this insurance coverage dispute, plaintiff, the insured, appeals, assigning error to the allowance of summary judgment in favor of defendant insurers. Plaintiff argues that the trial court erred in concluding that: (1) flood damage to a riprap bank on plaintiff’s property along the Columbia River fell under a policy exclusion for “land, land values, and the cost of excavations, grading, backfilling, or filling”; (2) even if the damage was not excluded from coverage, plaintiffs claim was time-barred; and (3) because Oregon law applied to the parties’ coverage dispute, plaintiff could not…