Dunlap v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

Decided July 13, 2005. Henry du Pont Ridgely wrote the opinion for the court.

878 A.2d 434 · Cited 338 times

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• Tackett v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance Co. · 653 A.2d 254
• Rawlings v. Apodaca · 726 P.2d 565
• E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co. v. Pressman · 679 A.2d 436
• General Accident Insurance v. Wheeler · 221 Conn. 206
• Wood v. . Duff-Gordon · 118 N.E. 214
• Merrill v. Crothall-American, Inc. · 606 A.2d 96
• Zilisch v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 995 P.2d 276
• Price v. Wells Fargo Bank · 213 Cal. App. 3d 465
• Deese v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 838 P.2d 1265
• Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. · 64 A.2d 581
• Cincinnati SMSA Ltd. Partnership v. Cincinnati Bell Cellular Systems Co. · 708 A.2d 989
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Johnson · 320 A.2d 345
• Pierce v. International Ins. Co. of Ill. · 671 A.2d 1361
• Schwartz v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. · 106 Cal. Rptr. 2d 523
• Heney v. Sutro & Co. · 153 P. 972
• Deptula v. Horace Mann Insurance · 842 A.2d 1235
• VLIW TECHNOLOGY, LLC v. Hewlett-Packard Co. · 840 A.2d 606
• Union Bankers Insurance Co. v. Shelton · 889 S.W.2d 278
• Desert Equities, Inc. v. Morgan Stanley Leveraged Equity Fund, II, L.P. · 624 A.2d 1199
• McMullin v. Beran · 765 A.2d 910
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Shrader · 882 P.2d 813
• In Re Prudential Insurance Co. of America Sales Practices Litigation · 975 F. Supp. 584
• Exxon Corp. v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · 678 S.W.2d 944
• Campbell v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · 840 P.2d 130
• Hurst v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · 652 A.2d 10

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