Wescott v. Allstate Insurance

Decided January 18, 1979. Armand A. Dufresne Jr. wrote the opinion for the court.

397 A.2d 156 · Cited 120 times

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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.

• Bryant v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 205 Va. 897
• Gulf American Fire & Casualty Co. v. McNeal · 154 S.E.2d 411
• Clayton v. Alliance Mutual Casualty Co. · 512 P.2d 507
• Charest v. Union Mutual Insurance · 113 N.H. 683
• Pickering v. American Employers Insurance · 282 A.2d 584
• Steeves v. Irwin · 233 A.2d 126
• Harthcock v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · 248 So. 2d 456
• Stephens v. Allied Mutual Insurance Company · 156 N.W.2d 133
• Van Tassel v. Horace Mann Insurance Company · 207 N.W.2d 348
• MFA Mutual Ins. Co. v. Wallace · 431 S.W.2d 742
• Burcham v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · 121 N.W.2d 500
• Beckwith v. Rossi · 175 A.2d 732
• Foster-Porter Enterprises, Inc. v. De Mare · 81 A.2d 325
• Michigan Mutual Liability Co. v. Karsten · 163 N.W.2d 670
• Collins v. Motorists Mutual Insurance · 194 N.W.2d 148
• Grunfeld v. Pacific Automobile Insurance · 232 Cal. App. 2d 4
• Rhault v. Tsagarakos · 361 F. Supp. 202
• Tuthill v. State Farm Insurance · 311 N.E.2d 770
• Pleitgen Ex Rel. Pleitgen v. Farmers Insurance Exchange · 207 N.W.2d 535
• Blakeslee v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance · 188 N.W.2d 216
• Inter-Island Resorts, Ltd. v. Akahane · 352 P.2d 856
• Levesque v. Fraser Paper Limited · 189 A.2d 375
• Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co. v. Waugh · 188 A.2d 889
• United Truck Lines, Inc. v. Department of Public Works · 42 P.2d 1104
• Transportation Insurance Company v. Wade · 461 P.2d 190

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• Molleur v. Dairyland Insurance · 2008 ME 46
• Beal v. Allstate Insurance Co. · 2010 ME 20
• Flaherty v. Allstate Insurance · 2003 ME 72
• Greenvall v. Maine Mutual Fire Insurance · 1998 ME 204
• Levine v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 2004 ME 33
• Tait v. Royal Insurance · 913 F. Supp. 621
• Yarbrough v. State Farm Insurance · 730 F. Supp. 1061
• Tibbetts v. Maine Bonding & Casualty Co. · 618 A.2d 731
• Mullen v. Liberty Mutual Insurance · 589 A.2d 1275
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Universal Underwriters Insurance · 513 A.2d 283
• James M. Dickau v. Vermont Mutual Insurance Co. · 2014 ME 158
• Connolly v. Royal Globe Insurance · 455 A.2d 932
• Braley v. Berkshire Mutual Insurance Co. · 440 A.2d 359
• Pease v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · 2007 ME 134
• Bazinet v. Concord General Mutual Insurance · 513 A.2d 279
• Butterfield v. Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance · 2004 ME 124
• Hare v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co. · 471 A.2d 1041
• Skidgell v. Universal Underwriters Ins. · 1997 ME 149
• Government Employees Insurance Co. v. Concord General Mutual Insurance · 458 A.2d 1205
• Moody v. Horace Mann Insurance · 634 A.2d 1309
• Young v. Greater Portland Transit District · 535 A.2d 417
• Muir v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 522 A.2d 236
• Peerless Insurance v. Progressive Insurance · 2003 ME 66
• Baybutt Construction Corp. v. Commercial Union Insurance · 455 A.2d 914
• Wilmington Trust Co. v. Clark · 424 A.2d 744

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