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COLEMAN v. GULF INS. GROUP

Docket No. L.A. 31916.

41 Cal.3d 782 (1986)

718 P.2d 77

226 Cal. Rptr. 90

ELOISE COLEMAN et al., Minors, etc., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. GULF INSURANCE GROUP et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

May 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

King & Seligsohn, Stephen Scott King and Henry Seligsohn for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Brown & Brown, Bradley A. Raisin, Leonard Sacks, Jean Corey, Al Schallau, Robert E. Cartwright, Wylie A. Aitken, Harlan Arnold, Glen T. Bashore, Ray Bourhis, Richard D. Bridgman, Edwin Train Caldwell, David S. Casey, Jr., Victoria De Goff, Douglas K. de Vries, H. Grieg Fowler, Sanford M. Gage, Ian Herzog, G. Dana Hobart, Stanley K. Jacobs, Harvey R. Levine, John C. McCarthy, Timothy W. Peach, Robert H. Sulnick, Arne Werchick and Stephen I. Zetterberg as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Demler & Armstrong, Edison J. Demler and Robert W. Armstrong for Defendants and Respondents.

Latham & Watkins, Donald P. Newell, Milton A. Miller, Jeffrey A. Toder, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, Irving H. Greines, Alan G. Martin, Spray, Gould & Bowers, Daniel O. Howard, James S. Link, Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, Michael R. Tyler, S. Thomas Todd, Howard Wollitz, Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Heine, Underberg, Manley & Casey, Fred J. Hiestand, Richard E. Bawden, Reynolds, Reider & Bawden, Robert F. Wilson and Wilson, Borror, Dunn & Scott as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Plaintiffs obtain a judgment against defendant, defendant appeals, and the parties settle while the appeal is pending. May plaintiffs then bring a new suit to recover additional damages against the defendant's insurer, claiming that the insurer was responsible for instigating the appeal, and that it did so knowing the appeal was without merit but in order to achieve delay and coerce settlement?

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