Johnson v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that coverage issues are to be “judicially determined by the court” and are “not subject to a determination by appraisers”
• holding that “causation is … an amount-of-loss question for the appraisal panel when an insurer admits that there is covered loss, the amount of which is disputed.”
• holding that “causation is … an amount-of-loss question for the appraisal panel when an insurer admits that there is covered loss, the amount of which is disputed.”
• concluding that “causation is a coverage question for the court when an insurer wholly denies that there is a covered loss and an amount-of-loss question for the appraisal panel when an insurer admits that there is covered loss, the amount of which is disputed”
• “[C]overage issues [a]re to be judicially determined by the court . . . .”
• “[W]hen the insurer admits that there is a covered loss, but there is a disagreement on the amount of loss, it is for the appraisers to arrive at the amount to be paid.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).