[Download] "Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co. V. Farmers' Insurance Group" by Fourth Appellate District, Division Two Court of Appeal of California * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co. V. Farmers' Insurance Group
- Author : Fourth Appellate District, Division Two Court of Appeal of California
- Release Date : January 23, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 89 KB
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This appeal presents two questions apparently not heretofore confronted by the appellate courts of this state: (1) whether a permissive user of an automobile who is an insured under the omnibus clause of the vehicle owner's liability insurance policy has a right of action against the owner's insurer for its bad faith refusal to effect settlement within its policy limits, and (2) if so, whether the permissive user's automobile liability insurer, whose coverage constitutes excess insurance, may recover from the owner's insurer, whose coverage constitutes the primary insurance, the amount the excess insurer was required to pay on a judgment against the permissive user as a result of the primary insurer's bad faith refusal to settle. We conclude both questions are properly answered affirmatively.