MERRIMAN v. AMERICAN GUAR. & LIABILITY INS.

No. 33929-7-III.

396 P.3d 351 (2017)

198 Wn.App. 594

William MERRIMAN and Colleen Merriman, husband and wife, Appellants, v. AMERICAN GUARANTEE & LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPANY; Partners Claim Services, Inc.; Bernd Moving Systems, Inc., a Washington corporation; Douglas A. Bernd and Jane Doe Bernd; John Does 1-5, Defendants, York Risk Services Group, Inc., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 3.

April 11, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Candler Smart , Ian S. Birk , Isaac Ruiz , Kathryn Manning Knudsen , Keller Rohrback, LLP, 1201 3rd Ave., Ste. 3200, Seattle, WA, 98101-3052, Jeffrey Iver Tilden , Gordon Tilden Thomas & Cordell LLP, 1001 4th Ave., Ste. 4000, Seattle, WA, 98154-1007, for Appellants.

John Jay Carroll , James Stephen Elliott , Halverson Northwest Law Group P.C., P.O. Box 22550, Yakima, WA, 98907-2550, for Respondent.


¶ 1 William and Colleen Merriman brought a negligence action against Bernd Moving Systems after a fire at Bernd's storage warehouse destroyed over $300,000 worth of the Merrimans' property. When the Merrimans learned through litigation that Bernd had substantial insurance protecting its storage customers against property loss that...

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