Primary and excess insurers periodically clash over whether the underlying claim should have been paid by the primary insurer. But it is pretty unusual for an excess insurer to argue that the underlying claim payment made by other insurers improperly eroded the excess insurer’s attachment point and prematurely triggered the excess coverage for a subsequent claim. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed the question of whether an excess insurer challenge an underlying insurer’s payment decision.

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