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Insurer settles in tenant equitable garnishment case
A fourth insurance company defendant in an equitable garnishment case agreed to settle for over a million dollars, avoiding a December trial.
Motor vehicle collision results in multimillion-dollar settlement
Two plaintiffs were injured in a motor vehicle collision with the defendant who admitted to being intoxicated while driving.
Negligence: Medical Malpractice-Equitable Garnishment-Duty to Defend
Where a woman, who developed an infection following a tummy-tuck surgery, sought an equitable garnishment from a health care insurer to satisfy a $500,000 judgment against her doctor, the judgment […]
Insurance: Equitable Garnishment-Ambiguity
Where insurers challenged a partial summary judgment to respondent awarding an equitable garnishment of more than $5 million to respondent in a dispute arising from respondent’s claims of malicious prosecution […]
Insurance: Covered Occurrence-Equitable Garnishment-Sanctions
(1)Where plaintiff car buyers secured a judgment in an action alleging fraudulent misrepresentation under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act against defendants and the defendants’ insurer was sued after denying coverage […]
Insurance: Business-Liability Policy- Equitable Garnishment- Duty to Indemnify
Plaintiffs appealed from the grant of summary judgment to defendant on plaintiffs’ equitable garnishment action, after plaintiffs obtained a judgment against defendant’s insured, after defendant denied coverage under a business-liability […]
Insurance : Equitable Garnishment – Omnibus Insurance Clause – Permissive User
Griffitts v. Old Republic Insurance Company (MLW No. 71809/Case No. SC96740 – 11 pages) (Supreme Court of Missouri, Wilson, J.; all concur)
Domestic Relations : Settlement Agreement – Personal Injury Proceeds – Equitable Garnishment
Baker v. Baker (MLW No. 71665/Case No. WD80906 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Ardini Jr., J.)
Insurance : Equitable Garnishment – New Home Defect – ‘Occurrence’
Davies v. Barton Mutual Insurance Company (MLW No. 71098/Case No. SD34857 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)
Negligence : Auto Accident – Equitable Garnishment – Permissive Use
Griffitts v. Old Republic Insurance Company (MLW No. 71053/Case No. SD34753 – 18 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Burrell, J.)
Insurance : Auto Accident – Equitable Garnishment – Notice
Lu v. Automobile Club Inter-Insurance Exchange (MLW No. 69920/Case No. ED104197 – 14 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)
Insurance : Equitable Garnishment – Vexatious Refusal – Exclusions
Minden v. Atain Specialty Insurance Company (MLW No. 67843/Case No. 14-1112 – 12 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Beam, J.)
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