JUDGMENT: $15 Million – CRHH obtains judgment of approximately $15 million in SFSC jury trial. The judgment was upheld on appeal in April 2021.
Tim Harris and Steve Soskin secured a 12-0 verdict of over $7million for client Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co., against Triton, Subs, Inc., and three guarantors insured by Travelers Ins. The San Francisco Superior court trial started May 20, 2019, and the verdict was returned on June 13, after less than 4 hours of deliberation. Post-trial motions added over $1 million in prevailing party attorney’s fees, $256,000 in expert fees pursuant to C.C.P. §998(b), and over $3 million in interest. Experts established that PVC insulation damaged during a commercial installation in 2003, had carbonized and then ignited in 2007, causing a fire that destroyed commercial structures.
(Fireman’s Fund Ins. Co. v. Triton Subs, Inc., et al, CGC15-544547)
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Arbitration Award for Insurer Against Managing General Agent for Breach of Agency Agreement
The Firm secured an award for client Great Divide Insurance Company in an arbitration against Monarch Management Corporation, a managing general agent for Great Divide under an agency agreement. Great Divide demanded arbitration because of the omission of an abuse and molestation exclusion in breach of the underwriting guidelines under which Monarch was authorized to issue policies in Great Divide’s name. After a policy was issued without the exclusion, Great Divide was forced to defend an insured in a sexual molestation case and ultimately settled the matter just before trial. After a four-day arbitration before a panel headed by a retired Judge of the California Court of Appeals, and the testimony of ten witnesses and three experts, Great Divide was awarded all of the costs of defense and settlement, plus prejudgment interest, totaling over $450,000.
Read MoreComplex Two-Week Bad Faith Bench Trial
The Firm just completed a two week bench trial defending an unusually complex bad faith action based on denial of coverage in a legal malpractice action. The legal malpractice action arose from the insured law firm’s defense of a rental car company in an underlying action involving multiple deaths and quadriplegics. Thus the recent bad faith trial involved the merits of three cases rolled into one, “a case within a case within a case”.
Read MoreCRHH celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2022.
CRHH celebrated in 2022 its 35th Anniversary of the date the business commenced on December 16, 1987.
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