Cosmopolitan Mutual Insurance v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that when two insurance policies cover the same property and both contain an “Other Insurance” clause, the clauses are mutually repugnant and the parties are rendered co-primary insurers
• holding that there can be no excess insurance in the absence of primary insurance
• holding that when two carriers claim to be excess carriers \the general coverage of each policy applies and each company is obligated to share in the cost of the settlement and expenses\
• holding that when two carriers claim to be excess carriers “the general coverage of each policy applies and each company is obligated to share in the cost of the settlement and expenses”
• stating that “[i]t is commonly known that the cost of liability insurance does not increase proportionately with the policy limits.”
• stating that \[i]t is commonly known that the cost of liability insurance does not increase proportionately with the policy limits.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).