Panel Rejects Insurer’s Appeal In Subrogation Suit Arising From CIPA Settlement

(June 29, 2023, 12:47 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals panel on June 28 affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants in an insurer’s subrogation lawsuit seeking to recover defense and settlement costs that it paid in an underlying class action alleging its insured violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), concluding that the defendants had no indemnification obligation because the insured failed to give them control over the defense and settlement of the class action....