Litigation
Mar. 21, 2007
Panel Power
Focus Column - By Brendan J. Fogarty - The insurance policy appraisal process is good for determining the amount, but not necessarily the scope, of a loss.
By Brendan J. Fogarty
In Kacha v. Allstate Ins. Co., 140 Cal.App.4th 1023 (2006), the Court of Appeal confirmed the limited breadth of an insurance appraisal panel's power. In vacating an appraisal award, the court followed the rule stated two decades ago in Safeco Ins. Co. v. Sharma, 160 Cal.App.3d 1060 (1984), that an appraisal panel may not make determinations o...
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