State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Von Der Lieth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exclusion for loss caused by earth movement or natural ground water did not apply where third-party negligence was the efficient proximate cause of loss
• finding that prior negligence in approving a housing development was a contributing cause to landslide, even though earth movement was the most immediate cause
• applying Sabella because cracks in foundation of insured’s house were caused by the developer’s negligence in approving housing project and by a landslide
• defining “efficient proximate cause” as the “predominating cause,” not necessarily the “moving” or “triggering” cause
• “When a loss is caused by a combination of a covered and specifically excluded risks . . . the question of what caused the loss is generally a question of fact[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).