Last week, we reviewed the number of cases the Court has heard, year by year, in insurance and habeas corpus law. This week, we’re taking a deeper look at the Court’s cases in these two important areas of law.

For the entire period, only 39.14% of the Court’s insurance law cases were won by the insurer below. Since 1990, the Court has reversed exactly half of the decisions it has reviewed where insurers won below, and 57.69% of the cases where plaintiffs won below. Overall, the Court has reversed in whole or in part in 62.65% of the Court’s 83 insurance law cases.

We review the Court’s insurer wins affirmed in Table 778. The Court saw no such cases affirmed in either 1990 or 1991.   Two cases were affirmed in 1992, one in 1993 and 1994, none in 1995 and 1996, three in 1997, one in 1998 and 1999, one in 2002, three in 2006 and 2007 and one in 2008. The Court has had no insurer affirmances since 2008.

The Court has seen one insurer win reversed in 1990, three in 1992 and one per year in each of the following years: 1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2013.

The Court saw two insurers’ losses from the Appellate Court affirmed in 1991. Three cases were affirmed in 1994, two in 1997 and 1998, 2001 and 2002, one in 2004 and 2005, two in 2005, one in 2007, two in 2010 and one in 2013 and 2015.

The Court saw two insurers’ losses reversed in 1990. Three cases were reversed in 1992, two in 1993, three in 1995, one in 1996, two in 1997, one in 1998 and 1999, two in 2000, one in 2001, 2002 and 2004, three in 2005 and one per year in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

Between 1990 and 1995, the Court reversed, in whole or in part, 43.9% of its insurance law cases. The Court reversed 34.48% of its insurance law cases between 1996 and 2000. Between 2001 and 2005, the Court reversed 70.59% of its insurance law cases. The Court reversed 41.18% of the time between 2006 and 2010. Finally, the Court reversed 71.43% of its insurance law decisions between 2011 and 2017.

Join us tomorrow as we turn our attention to a closer analysis of the Court’s habeas corpus law decisions.

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