Nabisco, Inc. v. Transport Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that self-insurance is “other insurance” under a policy which explicitly stated that its coverage was excess if there was “other insurance or self-insurance”
• finding self-insurance to be \other insurance\ where policy explicitly stated that its coverage was excess if there was \other insurance or self-insurance \ (emphasis added)
• finding self-insurance to be “other insurance” where policy explicitly stated that its coverage was excess if there was “other insurance or self-insurance ” (emphasis added)
• self-insurance is primary where other policy expressly provides that its coverage is excess over any “other insurance or self-insurance”
• “Transport’s coverage is excess over both Nabisco’s $50,000 of self-insurance and Home’s $5 million umbrella policy.”
• court would create a “serendipitous windfall” for insured were it to permit it to avoid consequences of its risk management decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).