Insurance Litigation (The Rutter Group California Practice Guide)

The Rutter Group California Practice Guide: Insurance Litigation provides one-stop guidance through insurance-related disputes. This practice guide includes a separate practice and procedure chapter that provides plaintiff and defense strategies and tactics from experts in the field. The authors develop each topic step by step, showing you how, when, and where to proceed, and cite the latest cases available, along with statutes and rules of court. The set includes sample practice-tested forms conforming to the latest rules with comments and suggestions for their use. Contents cover:

• Basic insurance concepts and terminology
• Creation of insurance relationship
• Policy contents: anatomy of an insurance policy
• Interpretation of insurance policies
• Termination, reformation and rescission
• First party coverages
• Third party coverages
• Multiple insurers on risk
• Subrogation
• Insolvent insurers
• Extracontractual liability
• Bad faith
• Damages
• Statutory and administrative regulation
• Practice and procedure