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Insurer’s Failure to Cancel Motor Carrier’s Insurance Certificate Did Not Continue Coverage

Coverage from a commercial auto policy does not remain in effect after the policy’s expiration date merely because the insurer failed to give proper notice to the Department of Motor Vehicles that it was canceling a certificate of insurance, the …

Nevada Supreme Rejects Subrogation Bid by Excess Insurer after Nightclub Beating

Bouncers at the Marquee Nightclub in Las Vegas assaulted David Moradi and thew him out of the club after he ran up a $10,000 bar bill and got into an argument with a waitress about his credit card. Big mistake. …

Equitable Subrogation/Contribution Among Coinsurers and Duct Tape

Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other It is difficult to think of two legal concepts that have caused more confusion and headache for both courts and litigants than have contribution and subrogation. Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co. v. Maryland …