Des Moines, Iowa insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff which sued seeking a declaratory judgment.

Plaintiff Arrowood Indemnity Company alleged it has no duty to defend or indemnify Defendant Charles McCarthy and his estate against abuse claims by the Individual Defendants or to pay a settlement that the defendants reached resolving their underlying claims in state court. ... More...    $0 (03-15-2024 - IA)

Council Bluffs, Iowa false statements in connection with Federal Crop Insurance charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Andrew J. Fisher, age 55.

Fischer obtained crop insurance for the crop years 2012, 2014, and 2017 through the United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency’s Federal Crop Insurance Program. Fisher then submitted fraudulent insurance claim... More...    $0 (09-17-2021 - IA)

This case involves the City of Waterloo’s efforts to be reimbursed under Iowa Code section 411.22 (2011) for its payment of medical expenses and temporary disability benefits on behalf of an injured police officer. The district court rejected the city’s indemnification claim to proceeds of the officer’s settlement of his tort claim against third parties. Because section 411.22 only contempla... More...    $0 (05-16-2013 - IA)

The City of Council Bluffs, police officers Daniel Larsen, Lyle Brown, and David Dawson (collectively the City), and Curtis McGhee appeal from the district court’s order granting summary judgment to Chicago Insurance Company (CIC) and Columbia Casualty Company (Columbia), on CIC’s and Columbia’s declaratory judgment claims concerning coverage under various insurance policies. We affirm as to... More...    $0 (04-30-2013 - IA)

This appeal involves the question of whether an insurance policy provides coverage to a custom farming operation. Both parties filed motions for summary judgment. The district court overruled the insurance company’s motion for summary judgment. The district court granted the insureds’ motion for summary judgment and entered judgment for the insureds based on the reasonable expectations doctrin... More...    $0 (02-01-2013 - IA)

The question in this appeal is whether a half-century-old federal common-law rule assigning liability to carriers to secure their cargo before driving their tractor-trailers entitled HD Supply Waterworks Ltd.—whose employee loaded a large pipe onto Kenneth Smith’s flatbed at its warehouse facility—to summary judgment in the negligence suit brought by the injured truck driver and his wife. Pl... More...    $0 (12-21-2011 - IA)

James Cunningham appeals from the district court order granting summary judgment in favor of Aviva Life and Annuity Company (Aviva). Cunningham argues the district court erred in granting summary judgment on Aviva’s breach of contract and indemnification claims, as well as awarding attorney fees. We hold that the entry of summary judgment on Aviva’s breach of contract claim was proper. However... More...    $0 (12-07-2011 - IA)

Workers’ compensation claimant, Atifa Rizvic, appeals the district court’s ruling on a petition for judicial review that reversed the workers’ compensation commissioner’s ruling awarding her sixty percent industrial disability as a result of an injury she received while working for Beef Products Inc. She contends it was error for the district court to remand her case to the agency for cons... More...    $0 (08-24-2011 - IA)

Hoot General Construction appeals the district court's1 verdict against it and in favor of John T. Jones Construction in an action brought on a contract between the two companies. Jones, in turn, appeals the district court's refusal to award certain liquidated damages and the district court's decision not to award attorneys fees related to claims against third parties. We affirm.

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This action was brought by federal crop insurance provider American Growers Insurance Company (Insurer), alleging that the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) erred under 7 U.S.C. § 1508(j)(3) by adding prevented planting coverage to basic federal crop insurance policies without increasing the premium rate that the insurance company could charge. Both sides filed motions for summary judgmen... More...    $0 (07-15-2008 - IA)

On December 6, 2005, Katherine Huffman filed a lawsuit against Cassandra Stammer, Penny Pyle, and Merastar Insurance Co. Huffman alleged she had been injured when her vehicle was struck by a vehicle driven by Stammer on December 14, 2004. The vehicle Stammer was driving was owned by Pyle. Huffman claimed Stammer was operating the vehicle with Pyle's consent.1 Huffman also included a claim aga... More...    $0 (01-16-2008 - IA)

Appellant Augustus Lartius d/b/a LPM Homes of Ames and d/b/a Lartius Property Management (Lartius) appeals from the district court's entry of a summary judgment ordering him to indemnify Crane Rental & Rigging Company Inc. (Crane Rental) for money paid on its behalf by appellee Employers Mutual Casualty Company (Employers), now subrogee as Crane Rental's liability insurance carrier. Lartius c... More...    $0 (11-08-2007 - IA)

Royal Indemnity and Federal Insurance sued FM Global on an indemnity theory claiming that they were forced to pay Deere & Co. for the losses it sustained as a direct result of a fire in a warehouse owned by their insured in which $70 million in machinery and equipment was stored that was destroyed on February 20, 2001. The plaintiffs contended that an on-site inspection by FM Global failed to... More...    $39500000 (05-12-2007 - IA)

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ABC Plastics, Inc. and Ernest Stoppelmoor1 appeal from the district court's dismissal of their third-party complaint against the Small Business Administration and LPP Mortgage, as assignee of the SBA. The underlying suit was filed in Iowa state court by Edward J. Mattes, Catherine Mattes, and Nancy Waters against Stoppelmoor, seeking payment of the rent on a real estate lease. Stoppelmoor file... More...    $0 (02-24-2003 - IA)

Alice and Leroy Henningsen sued their propane supplier, Eastern Iowa Propane, Ltd. (EIP), for damages to their home when their propane furnace exploded. EIP in turn sued Honeywell, Inc., the manufacturer of a gas valve in the furnace, for contribution or indemnity. Honeywell moved for summary judgment, based on Iowa Code section 614.1(11) (1999) (statute of repose for improvements to real property... More...    $0 (10-14-2002 - IA)

Doris Adams was injured in the pit area of an automobile racetrack and sued Frieden, Inc. and the National Association for Stock Auto Racing. The defendants moved for summary judgment on the ground that Adams had signed a release of liability before entering the pit. Adams filed a belated resistance and affidavit, contending she was legally blind. The court overruled the defendants' timeliness ... More...    $0 (08-16-2002 - IA)

The Plaintiff subcontractor brought an action against the Defendant sprinkler company who refused to indemnity the plaintiff after installation of the sprinkler system when the pipes burst.... More...    $0 (07-29-1998 - IA)