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142587P.pdf 07/30/2015 Western Heritage Insurance Co. v. Fun Services of Kansas City
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-2587
and No: 14-2697
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman, Circuit Judge, and Doty,
District Judge]
Civil case - Insurance. In this declaratory judgment action to determine
whether Western had a duty to indemnify and defend its insured in an
action brought by Fun Services for damages related to its receipt of the
insured's junk faxes, Fun Services did not have standing under Missouri
law to bring counterclaims regarding the meaning of the policies because
it had not yet obtained a judgment against Western's insured; deductible
endorsements operate more like a policy limit that a defense to coverage
and Western's failure to issue a reservation of rights did not waive its
ability to enforce the deductible endorsements; the district court did not
err in determining that the $1,000 deductible amount applies separately to
each fax and did not err in determining that damages and legal expenses
could not exceed $1,000; even if the ordinary person could define "claim"
to include multiple faxes sent to one class member during a policy year,
Fun Services failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact about
whether any class member received more than one fax in a policy year, and
the district court did not err in granting summary judgment to Western on
the duty-to-indemnify issue.