Garamendi v. Executive Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the superior court’s in rem 21 jurisdiction under § 1020 extends to assets of third parties that 22 have an “identity of interest” with an insolvent insurer
• “[I]nsol-vency proceedings respecting [an insurer] are analogous to proceedings in bankruptcy. We thus look to federal bankruptcy law for guidance.”
• “Early in the history of our federal system, a general rule was established that state and federal courts should not interfere with or restrain each other’s proceeding.” (citing Donovan v. Dallas, 377 U.S. 408, 412, 84 S.Ct. 1579, 12 L.Ed.2d 409 (1964))
• insurance insolvency proceedings are analogous to proceedings in bankruptcy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).