Millar v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• court may not invent an ambiguity and resolve it to find coverage where none exists under policy
• policyholder’s home damaged when soil beneath it sank due to water escaping from broken sprinkler system; court found earth movement exclusion unambiguous and denied coverage
• \[T]he `efficient moving cause' rule must yield to the language of the insurance policy in question.\
• \The reasonable expectation doctrine applies to events at the time coverage is purchased. Subsequent events are irrelevant.\
• a contractual term “is not ambiguous . . . merely because one party assigns a different meaning to it in accordance with his or her own interest’
• \[E]xpectation of coverage must be objectively reasonable.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

34 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Slade
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-08-27· cited 207×
• Murray v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-07-21· cited 129×
• Fayad v. Clarendon Nat. Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-03-31· cited 116×
• Alf v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Utah Supreme Court· 1993-04-08· cited 111×
• Liristis v. American Family Mutual Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-12-26· cited 59×
• Western National Mutual Insurance Co. v. University of North Dakota
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-04-16· cited 53×
• Chase v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2001-09-13· cited 50×
• Kula v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1995-06-09· cited 44×
• West v. Umialik Insurance Co.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2000-09-29· cited 42×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Bongen
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1996-11-08· cited 41×
• State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Castillo
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-08-14· cited 41×
• Tnt Speed & Sport Center, Inc., D/B/A Tnt Golf Cars & Utility Systems v. American States Insurance Company
  Eighth Circuit· 1997-05-27· cited 37×
• American Family Mutual Insurance v. White
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2003-03-20· cited 35×
• Assurance Co. of America, Inc. v. Jay-Mar, Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 1999-02-10· cited 28×
• Smith v. Hughes Aircraft Co. Corp.
  D. Arizona· 1991-09-06· cited 25×
• AMERICAN RESOURCES INS. v. H & H Stephens Construction, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2006-03-24· cited 25×
• Schroeder v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  D. Nevada· 1991-07-09· cited 24×
• Tenet Healthsystem TGH, Inc. v. Silver
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2002-08-27· cited 24×
• Frost v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1992-02-25· cited 13×
• Sentinel Associates v. American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance
  E.D. Virginia· 1992-10-26· cited 12×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sparks v. Republic National Life Insurance
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1982-06-10· cited 424×
• Darner Motor Sales, Inc. v. Universal Underwriters Insurance
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-03-29· cited 328×
• Ontiveros v. Borak
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 306×
• State Farm Fire and Casualty Company v. Steven M. Martin Peggy D. Martin
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-04-10· cited 165×
• Howell v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1990-03-22· cited 63×
• SAFECO INSURANCE CO. OF AM. v. Hirschmann
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-05-18· cited 61×
• McDowell v. Davis
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-12-27· cited 58×
• Village Inn Apartments v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 1990-04-04· cited 52×
• Security Insurance Co. of Hartford v. Andersen
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-10-04· cited 36×
• Camp v. Deseret Mutual Benefit Ass'n
  Utah Supreme Court· 1979-01-09· cited 20×
• Continental Insurance v. McDaniel
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1988-11-03· cited 19×
• State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Martin
  C.D. California· 1987-10-20· cited 15×
• Green v. Mid-America Preferred Insurance Co.
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1987-12-03· cited 13×
• Safeco Insurance Co. of America v. Hirschmann
  Washington Supreme Court· 1989-05-18· cited 7×
• Koory v. Western Casualty & Surety Co.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-05-26· cited 6×

Other cases named Millar v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Millar v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1991-06-17· cited 4×