· 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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