Julian vs. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Company
Year: 2005
Court: California Supreme Court
Case Number: S109735
UP took the position that the scope of landslide exclusion should not encompass damage from a tree that crashed into a home. In other words, for cases involving multiple perils (perhaps one covered and one not) insurers should not be allowed to “unwind” the “predominant cause” by arguing proximate cause/concurrent causation.
UP’s brief was prepared pro bono by Chipman Miles, Brian M. Miles and Joel M. Westerbrook of Chipman Miles & Associates