Khatchatrian v. Continental Casualty Co.’s Empirical Analysis
332 F.3d 1227 · 2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Geddes & Smith, Inc. v. Saint Paul Mercuy Indemnity Co. · 232 Cal. App. 2d 203 - Alessandro v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance · 158 Cal. App. 3d 229 - Williams v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Bornstein v. J.C. Penney Life Insurance · Khatchatrian v. Continental Casualty Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“a series of imperceptible events that finally culminated in a single tangible harm”). 5 . Similarly distinguishable are the cases that Plaintiffs cite involving fatal burns from an accidental fire, a slip-and-fall causing bleeding, and heart problems caused by a car accident or “unusual” physical stress. 6 . Plaintiffs insist that Rodriguez and other Warsaw Convention cases concerning DVT”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must occur from external rather than natural causes.” The court pointed out that this conclusion was “consistent with the leading treatise on insurance law, which explains that an ‘accident’ must entail '[s]ome form of external events and forces, as opposed to purely”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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