B & E Convalescent Center v. State Compensation Insurance Fund

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the underlying wrongful termination claim was precluded by section 533 because the claim created a potential for recovery only if there was proof of willful conduct
• “It is well established and generally self-evident that the act of terminating an employee is an intentional act.”
• “If the coverage provisions in any policy are unclear or the exclusions are ambiguous, so that a reasonable purchaser of the policy would not realize that the risk is excluded and thus would reasonably expect the insurer to furnish a defense, a defense is required”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).