- Estate of Wheeler v. Garrison Property & Casualty Insurance Co.
INSURANCE LAW
United States Court of Appeals (2023)
Catherine Cole
In Estate of Wheeler v. Garrison Property & Casualty Insurance Co., 80 F.4th 1006 (9th Cir. 2023), the court of appeals held that certification to the Alaska Supreme Court was warranted to answer whether the scope of the pollution exclusion in a homeowners’ insurance policy includes carbon monoxide. ...
- Estate of Wheeler v. Garrison Property & Casualty Insurance Co.
INSURANCE LAWUnited States District Court, District of Alaska (2022)Joseph PerryIn Estate of Wheeler v. Garrison Property & Casualty Insurance Co., 604 F. Supp. 3d 844 (D.Alaska 2022), the court held that pollution exclusion clauses of homeowner insurance policies aresubject to literal interpretation. (Id. at 850–51). In 2019, while at a vacation rental property, acouple’s son ...
- City of Unalaska v. National Union Fire Insurance Co.
INSURANCE LAWUnited States District Court, District of Alaska (2022)Flora LipskyIn City of Unalaska v. National Union Fire Insurance Co., 591 F. Supp. 3d 440 (D. Alaska 2022),the district court held that under Alaska state law, a Computer Fraud Insuring Agreement in aninsurance policy covered financial losses due to fraud perpetrated over email. (Id. at 453.) ...
- Downing v. Country Life Insurance Company
INSURANCE LAW
Angela Sbano
Downing v. Country Life Insurance Company
In Downing v. Country Life Insurance Company, 473 P.3d 699 (2020), the Supreme Court of Alaska affirmed the superior court’s decision that a mother’s interpretation of her late daughter’s life insurance policy was unreasonable, and that the insurance company had paid out the proper amount upon the daughter’s ...