Farmers Insurance Exchange v. Hartford Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “When more than one insurance policy covers a particular incident, courts look first to the language of the policies to settle any disputes as to the application of the respective coverages.”
• “When more than one insurance policy covers a particular incident, courts look first to the language of the policies to settle any disputes as to the application of the respective coverages.”
• Because an excess clause prevails over a pro rata clause, “[cjonsistent with this majority rule, this court concludes, that Farmers’[s] coverage would not be implicated until Hartford expended its policy limits.”
• Because an excess clause prevails over a pro rata clause, “[c]onsistent with this majority rule, this court concludes that Farmers’[s] coverage would not be implicated until Hartford expended its policy limits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).