Last week, we drilled down on the Supreme Court’s tort cases, looking year by year at what sub-areas of tort law produced the Court’s cases. This week, we’re doing the same thing for the Court’s docket of insurance cases. We’re dividing the field of insurance law into six sub-areas: coverage; separate torts against insurers (outside
Between 2005 and 2019, the Supreme Court decided only 29 insurance cases – far fewer than in our first 15 years. Fourteen of those cases involved coverage questions (although four of those fourteen fell in a single year – 2005). Three involved insurer torts, four dealt with exclusions, only two addressed defenses, three related to
Since she joined the Court in 2015, Justice Kruger has participated in six cases involving insurer parties, splitting her votes down the middle – three for the insurer party, three against.
Justice Kruger has participated in three cases won by the insurers at the Court of Appeal, voting to affirm one insurer win and voting
So far we’ve reviewed four Justices’ voting records in civil cases with insurers as named parties. Today, we’re looking at the data for Justice Cuellar.
Like Justice Liu, Justice Cuellar has split his votes right down the middle on the six insurer cases he’s participated in – three votes for the insurer’s position, three votes
Today we continue our seven-part post reviewing the voting records of the individual Justices in civil cases involving insurers as named parties.
Since joining the Court in 2011, Justice Liu has participated in eight such cases. He has evenly split his votes – four votes against the insurer’s position, four votes for.
Four of these
This is part three of our seven-part post reviewing the Justices’ voting records in cases involving insurer parties. Today: the Chief Justice.
The Court has decided significantly fewer insurer cases from 2011 to 2019 than it did in the previous ten years. Since joining the Court, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye has voted for insurer parties in
Last week, we began a seven-part series reviewing each Justice’s voting record, one area of law at a time – beginning with civil cases involving an insurer party. Since 2006, Justice Corrigan has voted for insurer parties 11 times while voting against insurer parties ten times. From 2006 to 2010, she voted for insurers seven
Today, we begin a seven-post series, reviewing the voting records of all seven current Justices in insurance law cases. First up is the Court’s senior Justice (by longevity), Justice Ming Chin, who announced his retirement last week.
Since joining the Court in 1997, Justice Chin has supported insurers’ positions in 31 cases involving insurance law,
Today, we conclude our review of the Supreme Court’s overall record in civil insurance law cases since 1990. Between 2010 and 2019, insurer parties won five cases while losing seven. Insurers won only one of five cases from 2010 to 2012 and have broken even with three wins and three losses since 2015.
Among cases
We saw yesterday that between 1990 and 1999, insurers did quite well in insurance law cases at the Supreme Court, winning twenty while losing only twelve. Things took a sharp turn with the new decade, however; between 2000 and 2009, insurers won only seventeen cases while losing nineteen. Between 2000 and 2002, insurers won only