• Potvin v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

    Publication Date: 2000-05-09
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    Industry:
    Date Filed: 2000-05-08
    Court: Cal. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: Brown, Baxter, Chin, Kennard, George, Mosk, Werdegar
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine I. Hanson, Astrid G. Meghrigian, Ann Allen, and Joseph R. Grodin
    for defendant: Harry W. R. Chamberlain II, Ellen Kamon, Cary S. Samuels, Ann C. Schneider, J. Mark Waxman, Lowell C. Brown, Robyn A. Meinhardt, Hema R. Anwar, William A. Helvestine, Paul A. Stewart, David M. Rice, Mark E. Reagan, Davis Wright Tremaine, Peter N. Grant, Harry Shulman, W. Reece Hirsch, Davis Wright Tremaine, and W. Clark Stanton

    Case Number: No. S061945

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion.After removal from defendant insurance company' s "preferred provider" lists, plaintiff physician brought th

  • Barner v. Leeds

    Publication Date: 2000-12-19
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    Date Filed: 2000-12-18
    Court: Cal. Sup. Ct.
    Judge:
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew Allen Cicconi, et. al.
    for defendant: Joan L. Cassman, et. al.

    Case Number: No. S070377

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. In Wiley v. County of San Diego (1998) 19 Cal.4th 532, we held that in a legal malpractice action against an attorne

  • Vacanti v. State Compensation Insurance Fund

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Date Filed: 2001-01-04
    Court: Cal. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: BROWN, J.,WERDEGAR, J., GEORGE, C.J., MOSK, J., KENNARD, J., BAXTER, J., CHIN J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. McDermott, et al.
    for defendant: Paul Woolls, et al.

    Case Number: No. S071945

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. This case contains a new twist on the seemingly endless litigation over the scope of workers' compensation exclusivi

  • Merrill v. Navegar

    Publication Date: 2001-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2001-08-06
    Court: Cal. Sup. Ct.
    Judge: KENNARD, J. and WERDEGAR, J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S083466

    The full case caption appears at the end of this opinion. On July 1, 1993, Gian Luigi Ferri killed eight people and wounded six-- and then killed himself-- during a shooting r