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Dec. 9, 2016

California court confirms support for policy 'stacking'

The Eastern District recently decided that California law supports combining the limits of consecutive policies if the occurrence is a continuous injury spanning consecutive policy years. By Jeremiah M. Welch and William S. Bennett

Jeremiah M. Welch

Saxe, Doernberger & Vita PC

Phone: (951) 365-3147

Email: jwelch@sdvlaw.com

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By Jeremiah M. Welch and William S. Bennett

The Eastern District of California recently decided that California law supports combining the limits of consecutive policies if the occurrence is a continuous injury spanning consecutive policy years. This practice is referred to as "stacking." Stacking allows a policyholder with a covered continuous injury to stack policy limits to create one large policy limit. Many jurisdictions look unfavorably at...

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