State Supreme Court / N.C.

Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Pennington

Decided December 20, 2002. George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. wrote the opinion for the court.

573 S.E.2d 118 · Cited 165 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Brown v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company · 204 S.E.2d 829
DeWitt v. Eveready Battery Co., Inc. · 565 S.E.2d 140
Sutton v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · 382 S.E.2d 759
Great American Insurance v. C. G. Tate Construction Co. · 279 S.E.2d 769
Dalton v. Camp · 548 S.E.2d 704
Alford v. Shaw · 398 S.E.2d 445
Ward v. Durham Life Insurance Co. · 381 S.E.2d 698
Proctor v. North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance · 324 N.C. 221
Dobson v. Harris · 530 S.E.2d 829
Woodson v. Rowland · 407 S.E.2d 222
Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · 414 S.E.2d 339
Koontz v. City of Winston-Salem · 186 S.E.2d 897
Lowe v. Bradford · 289 S.E.2d 363
Marcus Bros. Textiles, Inc. v. Price Waterhouse, LLP · 513 S.E.2d 320
State v. Camp · 209 S.E.2d 754
Correll v. Division of Social Services · 418 S.E.2d 232
Silvers v. Horace Mann Insurance · 378 S.E.2d 21
Buchanan v. Buchanan · 350 S.E.2d 175
Great American Insurance v. C. G. Tate Construction Co. · 265 S.E.2d 467

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Lipinski v. Town of Summerfield · 230 N.C. App. 305
Netherlands Insurance v. Cockman · 342 F. Supp. 2d 396
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Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Armwood · 638 S.E.2d 922
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