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· 7/23/1979

Carriers Insurance Co. v. American Policyholders' Insurance

Citations

  • 404 A.2d 216
  • 1979 Me. LEXIS 701

How courts have described this case

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

  • criticizing this method as apportioning a greater amount of the loss on the larger insurer regardless of the amount
  • “[T]he majority rule amounts to no more than an unacceptable subsidy from the high-coverage to the low-coverage carrier.”
  • where there are conflicting excess insurance claim provisions they are to be disregarded as mutually repugnant and each policy is then governed by its general terms
  • describing different approaches to determining which insurer should be primary

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Judges: McKusick, Pomer-Oy, Archibald, Delahanty, God-Frey, Nichols, Wernick

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