March 06, 2020
A California federal judge has ordered an AIG unit to pay American States Insurance Co. nearly $10 million, two months after the Ninth Circuit affirmed that the two insurers must equally split the bill to defend their mutual insured, Sierra Pacific Industries, in litigation over a 2007 wildfire in the Golden State.
March 30, 2018
An AIG unit must pick up the tab for half of the $13.2 million that American States Insurance Co. paid to defend Sierra Pacific Industries in litigation over a 2007 California wildfire, a federal judge ruled on Friday, finding that an equal division between the two insurers is appropriate because they shared the primary duty to defend Sierra.
May 23, 2017
American States Insurance Co. and the Insurance Co. of the State of Pennsylvania need to come up with better ideas for how to split the costs of defending two lumber companies that allegedly caused a forest fire, or get ready for trial, a California federal court ruled Monday.
July 15, 2016
Finding an umbrella insurer owes Sierra Pacific Industries a primary defense in lawsuits over a 2007 California wildfire "eviscerates the distinction between umbrella and primary insurance," the insurer said Thursday, urging a California federal judge to reconsider his ruling.