Between 2005 and 2019, the Supreme Court has decided 32 insurance cases. Twelve of those cases involved coverage issues. Eight involved defenses to coverage. Six cases involved exclusions to coverage. There were three cases involving regulatory issues, two “other” and none involving excess coverage.
Continue Reading What Kinds of Insurance Cases Does the Supreme Court Decide (Part 2 – 2005-2019)?
Last week, we drilled down on the Court’s tort docket, reviewing the sub-areas of tort law that the Court’s cases have been drawn from over the past thirty years. This week, we’re doing the same thing for the Court’s insurance law cases.
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Today, because insurer cases have been comparatively uncommon in recent years, we’re reviewing our final two sets of Justices’ voting records in a single post. First, Justice Theis.
Since joining the Court, Justice Theis has participated in ten civil cases involving insurers as named parties, supporting the insurers in six of those cases and voting
We continue our analysis of the individual Justices’ voting records in insurance law cases with Chief Justice Burke.
During her tenure, the Chief Justice has sat on 24 civil cases involving insurer parties. She has split her votes down the middle: 12 votes for the insurer, 12 votes against. Those totals hold even when we
Today, we’re continuing our seven-part post analyzing the individual Justices’ voting records in civil cases involving insurer parties.
Justice Karmeier joined the Court in 2005. Since that time, he has supported the insurer’s position in 18 civil cases, while opposing the insurer in 14 cases. From 2005 to 2008, he voted for insurers in 11
Today, we address the voting record of Justice Thomas throughout his entire tenure on the Court in civil cases involving an insurer party. Since 2001, Justice Thomas has voted for insurers’ position in 23 civil cases while voting against insurers 20 times. From 2001 to 2010, Justice Thomas voted for insurers 18 times to 15
Last week, we began our seven-post series, reviewing each Justice’s voting record by the area of law involved – first up, insurance law cases.
In our first Table, we show Justice Kilbride’s year-by-year votes for and against the position of insurer parties in civil cases. Since 2001, Justice Kilbride has split his votes evenly –
Today, we begin a seven-post series, reviewing how each Justice has voted in insurer cases overall. First up is the Court’s senior Justice, Justice Rita Garman.
In our first table, we report Justice Garman’s votes for and against insurer parties in civil insurance law cases. Since 2001, Justice Garman has voted for insurers in twenty-three
Today, we’re reviewing the overall data for the most recent decade in the Court’s insurance law decisions. From 2010 to 2019, insurers won six and lost eight as parties to civil cases. They were 1-3 in 2010, 1-2 in 2013 and 0-2 in 2018, 1-0 in 2011, 2012 and 2019.
Insurers won virtually none of
We continue our review of the how insurers have fared at the Supreme Court, this time reviewing the years 2000 to 2009.
For the decade, insurers did reasonably well, winning nineteen cases while losing fourteen. Between 2005 and 2008, insurers won eleven cases while losing only five.
As we saw last time, defending wins from