North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Where the insurance company filed an interpleader action to limit its liability in connection with suits brought against a convenience store arising out of the sale of alcohol to minors, the district court erred in dismissing the action. Because the ...

Where an insurance policy provided coverage to affiliates of the Episcopal Church, that policy extended to a breakaway parish that is embroiled in litigation against the diocese. Nothing in the master policy suggested the insurance company has the duty—or the ...

  The defendant-attorney and law firm were sued in a class action for violating the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994 (DPPA) based on their use of DMV records to send marketing materials to individuals who had been involved ...

Plaintiff’s forecast of evidence showed that he restored a 1966 Mustang and told his insurance agent he wanted classic car coverage. The insurance agent appraised the restored car at $24,000, the defendant-insurer confirmed the policy change, and plaintiff started paying ...

  Although the defendant-estate’s decedent had his own insurance that covered a car he bought from the defendant-dealership on a Saturday, since the decedent’s financing was not yet finalized, under G.S. § 20-75.1 the dealership’s insurance applied when the decedent ...

  Our Supreme Court has held that “where the date of the injury-in-fact can be known with certainty, the insurance policy or policies on the risk on that date are triggered.” Gaston Cnty. Dyeing Mach. Co. v. Northfield Insurance Co., ...

In a 1997 letter, the plaintiff-insured gave the defendant-excess insurer notice of circumstances that might, at some later date, give rise to a claim involving coal ash. However, in a 2000 letter, plaintiff withdrew its notice, agreeing that defendant had ...

Although the defendant-insurers’ auto policies exclude coverage for pollution, the policies’ pollution endorsement limits that exclusion so that underlying lawsuits by the plaintiff-hog producers’ neighbors arguably fall within the policies’ coverage. The court grants partial summary judgment for plaintiffs on ...

  Daughter-in-law and granddaughter who lived in separate dwelling on the same farm property owned by grandmother did not qualify as residents of grandmother’s household under the terms of her auto insurance policy and therefore were not entitled to coverage ...

  The plaintiff-trucking company rents trucks, short-term, from a leasing company. The defendant-insurance agency sent a certificate of insurance (COI) to the leasing company’s insurer, falsely representing that plaintiff’s insurance policy provided coverage for the short-term rental trucks. Since plaintiff ...