What is the priority of an insurer in determining which insurer has priority?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sapiano v. Williamsburg Nat. Ins. Co., 28 Cal.App.4th 533, 33 Cal.Rptr.2d 659 (Cal. App. 1994):
We assume, as contended by Williamsburg, that the parties could, explicitly, provide in their contract that the insurer has a priority regardless whether the insured is first made whole. (Samura v. Kaiser Foundation
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