Oppenheim v. Reliance Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that contemplated future assignment executed approximately three months post-release did not satisfy prior-assignment rule of Cope II
• applying workers' compensation exclusion to employer's president who was not entitled to workers' compensation immunity because of gross negligence
• A “release of the insured’s claims . . . bars a subsequent claim for excess damages, whether brought by [the assignee] or the insured, if the parties subsequently execute an assignment of claims”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).