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Judgment rendered July 17, 2024. Application for rehearing may be filed within the delay allowed by Art. 2166, La. C.C.P. No. 55,712-CA COURT OF APPEAL SECOND CIRCUIT STATE OF LOUISIANA ***** THOMAS DAVID WHEAT Plai

STEPHENS, J. Plaintiff, Donnette Koertge, individually and on behalf of her minor daughter, Lauren Koertge, appeals a judgment in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Bossier, State of Louisiana, awarding damages in favor of Plaintiff and against State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, The Mane Design, LLC, and Marlaina Free ("Defendants"). For the following reasons, we affirm in part and amend in part the t

STEPHENS, J. Plaintiff, Donnette Koertge, individually and on behalf of her minor daughter, Lauren Koertge, appeals a judgment in the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Bossier, State of Louisiana, awarding damages in favor of Plaintiff and against State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, The Mane Design, LLC, and Marlaina Free ("Defendants"). For the following reasons, we affirm in part and amend in part the t

HECHT, Justice (dissenting). I respectfully dissent. While I agree with my colleagues in the majority that the policy exclusion for losses “caused by rain” is an important aspect of a proper analysis of this case, I disagree that our disposition turns on the perceived distinction between rain and rainwater. It is important to understand precisely the loss for which Amish Connection seeks co

ORDER MARC T. TREADWELL, JUDGE Plaintiffs Tonya and Jason Long seek relief on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated for the alleged refusal of Defendant State Farm Fire and Casualty Company to assess and pay for diminished value when its insureds claim losses covered under their State Farm homeowners’ insurance policies. Doc. 1 at ¶¶ 1; 38. State Farm

ORDER MARC T. TREADWELL, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE This case presents one of the latest efforts of policyholders to reap the benefit of court rulings that casualty insurance policies,, absent an appropriate exclusion, cover diminished value. See, e.g. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Mabry, 274 Ga. 498, 556 S.E.2d 114 (2001). The Plaintiffs owned a townhouse in Smyrna, Georgia, that was in

PER CURIAM Affirmed. Robinson v. Tri-Met, 277 Or App 60, 370 P3d 864 (2016); Spearman v. Progressive Classic Ins. Co., 276 Or App 114, 366 P3d 821, rev allowed, 359 Or 847 (2016).

ORDER RICHARD W. STORY, United States District Judge This case comes before the Court on Defendant State Farm Fire and Casualty Company’s Motion for Summary Judgment, or, in the Alternative, Motion to Dismiss [33]. After reviewing the record, the Court enters the following Order. Background This is an insurance dispute between Plaintiff Rebecca T. Baumgartner and

Court Below—Superior Court of the State of Delaware, C.A. No. N12C-02-178 AFFIRMED. VACATED. REMANDED.

BOWER, J. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company appeals the district court order granting North Glenn Homeowners Association’s *68 motion to compel appraisal. State Farm claims the district court erred in ordering an appraisal as an issue of causation exists which cannot be determined by an appraisal. S

*894 In an action pursuant to Insurance Law § 3420 (a) (2) to recover the amount of an unsatisfied judgment against the defendant’s purported insured, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Brathwaite Nelson, J.), entered August 11, 2014, which denied its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complai

On Application for Rehearing PER CURIAM. On rehearing, Bonnie A. Curry and Bennie R. Walker argue that this court failed to consider their attempt to amend their “counterclaim” to add MacArthur Mike Hawkins (“MacArthur”) as a counterclaim defendant under Rule 13(h), Ala. R. Civ. P., and Rule 20(a), Ala. R. Civ. P., which, they argue, authorize the addition of parties not already involved in an acti

MEMORANDUM OPINION JACKSON L. KISER, Senior District Judge. On December 11, 2013, Defendant Craig Hunter Caldwell filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in this action. (See Caldwell Mot. for Summ. J., Dec. 11, 2013 [ECF No. 22].) Shortly thereafter, Defendant Jonathan Alan Wallace filed a similar motion, and Plaintiff State Farm Fire and Casualty Company filed a cross-motion for summary jud

OPINION BY SHOGAN, J.: In this declaratory judgment action, State Farm Fire and Casualty Company (“State Farm”) appeals from the trial court’s April 9, 2012 order denying State Farm’s motion for summary judgment and granting Appellees’, James DeCoster (“DeCoster”) and Beverly Diane Rydman’s (“Rydman”), motions for summary judgment with respect to State Farm’s duty to defend and indemnify DeCoster in a third-party

OPINION & ORDER NELSON S. ROMÁN, United States District Judge An air purifier designed overseas by a Swiss corporation caught fire and caused damage to a home located' in Bedford Hills, NY. The insurance company covering the home brought suit against the U.S. distributor of the air purifier claiming design defects caused the fire. The distributer counter-sued the foreign manufacturer. The foreign thir

By Judge Robert P. Doherty, Jr. On February 21, 2003, this Court rendered an opinion that did not fully address the question presented by Plaintiff. Citing State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Mabry, 255 Va. 286 (1998), Plaintiff now requests a reconsideration of the issues presented, which the Court grants. No additional evidence has been taken. The Court has instead re-reviewed the trial exhibits, the depos

Opinion by Judge GRAHAM. 1 1 In this action concerning insurance coverage, plaintiffs, Shadi Figuli, Joshua Figuli, and Jean Chu, appeal the district court's summary judgment in favor of defendant, State Farm Insurance Companies, concluding that raw sewage is a pollutant excluded from coverage by State Farm policies' absolute pollution exclusion. We affirm. I. Background

ORDER ON STATE FARM’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT C. ASHLEY ROYAL, District Judge. Plaintiff R. Wesley Lucas brings this action against his insurance carrier, Defendant State Farm, for failure to pay a fire loss claim under Plaintiffs homeowner’s insurance policy. State Farm has filed the current Motion for Summary Judgment. Having considered the Motion, all responses and replies thereto, and the appli

674 F.3d 663 (2012) Harry FOSTER, III and Linda Foster, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. No. 11-3100. United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Argued February 23, 2012. Decided March 16, 2012. *664 Thomas E. Hastings (argued), Attorney, The Hastings Law F

Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia ATLANTA, February 11, 2019 The Court of Appeals hereby passes the following order A19A0885. STATE FARM FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, SURETY FOR FORMER ADMINISTRATOR PATRICIA KNIGHT v. TINA KREAKBAUM, ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS V. KNIGHT. Upon consideration of the APPELLANT'S motion FOR PERMISSION TO WITHDRAW THE APPEAL in the above styled case, it is ordered that the mo