Willful Conduct Precluded Defense Benefits
/(Consultant) Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Continential Ins. Co., 159 Fed. Appx. 827, 2005 WL 3418636, 10th Cir. Wy. O., Dec. 14, 2005). The court found that California Insurance Code § 533 precluded coverage for the insureds intentional and purposeful design to steal creditor's intellectual property and drive its products off the shelf. G&A represented the claimant. (G&A recommended pursuit in California whose pertinent choice of law rules would have applied Wyoming law where Insurance Code 533 is not applicable.) Geyser selected counsel on a contingent fee to pursue the claim in Wyoming which applied California law finding that Ins Code § 533 prohibited insurance coverage for any willful act, which precluded coverage for 7up to whose rights Geyser succeeded the end assignment of rights.