CALIF. STATE AUTO. ASSN. INTER-INS. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S009171.

50 Cal.3d 658 (1990)

788 P.2d 1156

268 Cal. Rptr. 284

CALIFORNIA STATE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION INTER-INSURANCE BUREAU, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; DOROTHY COOPER, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California.

April 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Weinberg, Campbell & Stone, Michael T. Stone, Richard R. Ruggieri, Coddington, Hicks & Danforth, Clinton H. Coddington, Randolf F. Hicks, Crosby, Heafy, Roach & May, Peter W. Davis, Kathy M. Banke and Jenny D. Smith for Petitioner.

Horvitz & Levy, Ellis J. Horvitz, Peter Abrahams, Waldman, Bass, Stodel & Graham, Irwin Waldman and George K. Perlee as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Freitas, McCarthy, Bettini, MacMahon, Freitas & Keating, David P. Freitas and Albert P. Barsocchini for Real Party in Interest.

Ian Herzog, Leonard Sacks, Harry R. Levine, Douglas DeVries, Bruce Broillet, Robert Steinberg, Hurley, Grassini & Wrinkle, Roland Wrinkle, Farella, Braun & Martel and Mary E. McCutcheon as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

LUCAS, C.J.

INTRODUCTION

We seek in this case to resolve a lingering question arising from our decision in Moradi-Shalal v. Fireman's Fund Ins. Companies (1988) 46 Cal.3d 287 [250 Cal.Rptr. 116, 758 P.2d 58] (hereafter Moradi-Shalal). In Moradi-Shalal, we held, contrary to...

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