Legal Opinion
National Automobile & Casualty Insurance v. Frankel
California Court of Appeal
Decided August 11, 1988No. B029970PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
FUKUTO, J.
This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment rejecting an insurer’s assertion of noncoverage under the uninsured motorist portion of an automobile insurance policy.
The insurer sued its insured for a judicial declaration of noncoverage. The insured cross-complained against the insurer for bad faith, pleading the usual tort, contract, and statutory theories of recovery. This cross-complaint was severed, and its resolution deferred, while the insurer’s declaratory judgment claim was tried. Consequently the declaratory judgment from which the insurer appeals is a nonfinal…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Olson v. CoryCalifornia Supreme Court · 1983
- Schonfeld v. City of VallejoCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1975
- Security National Insurance v. HandCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1973
- Grunfeld v. Pacific Automobile InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1965
- Kirby v. Ohio Casualty InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1965
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Morehart v. County of Santa BarbaraCalifornia Supreme Court · 1994
- Bohannan v. Allstate Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1991
- Swan Magnetics, Inc. v. Superior Court of Santa Clara CountyCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1997
- Rubin v. Western Mutual InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1999
- Day v. PapadakisCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1991
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