Kajima Construction Services, Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• providing a definition of excess insurance and discussing the triggering of coverage in the context of horizontal exhaustion
• examining London, Bituminous, Alcan and John Burns and stating that “our prior decisions addressing targeted tender are not entirely on point, as those cases did not involve excess insurance policies” but only concurrent primary policies
• refusing to “eviscerate” the “clear distinctions between primary and excess insurance coverage”
• finding “Justice Freeman’s separate writing in Roberts” to be “particularly instructive”
• finding “Justice Freeman’s separate writing in Roberts” to be “particularly instructive”
• in contrast to primary insurance, excess insurance premiums are lower precisely because this secondary coverage is not to be collected unless and until the limits of the insured’s primary coverage are exhausted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).