Caterpillar, Inc. v. Great American Insurance Company, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that the proper allocation method is primarily an issue of contract
• concluding that Nodaway is a relative exposure case
• stating, in dictum, “there are con- ceivable situations where the individual actors would not be liable but their corporate employer would be, for example where a case depends on the collective scienter of its employ- ees”
• in addressing allocation of settlement amount between covered and uncovered claims, court may not consider theories of liability never at issue in the underlying complaint
• “[RJegardless of whether corporate liability is legally direct or derivative, a corporation must still act through its agents.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).