Teitelbaum Furs, Inc. v. Dominion Ins. Co., Ltd.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that California law “[does] not preclude the application of collateral estoppel in a civil case to issues determined in a previous criminal prosecution.”
• holding that corporations were collaterally es-topped from recovering insurance where their president was convicted of causing the loss
• holding that “any issue necessarily decided in a prior criminal proceeding is conclusively determined as to the parties if it is involved in a subsequent civil action”
• noting that since the corporation’s president was charged with felonies punishable with time in prison, “he had every motive to make as vigorous and effective a defense as possible”
• conviction of corporation president of theft and filing false insurance claims bars recovery in claim by corporation against insurer
• “any issue necessarily decided in a prior criminal proceeding is conclusively determined as to the parties if it is involved in a subsequent civil action”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).