California Interiors & Design v. Sentinel Insurance Company, Ltd.
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 CALIFORNIA INTERIORS & DESIGN, Case No. 23-cv-04956-LB
12 Plaintiff,
ORDER DENYING MOTION TO
13 v. DISMISS AND GRANTING MOTION
TO STRIKE
14 SENTINEL INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD., Re: ECF No. 8 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION AND STATEMENT 18 The plaintiff in this case is a furniture company that owns a large showroom in San Mateo. In 19 December 2022, the plaintiff was forced to cease operations and incurred substantial water 20 damage due to ruptured discharge piping leading from a sump pump. In 2019, the plaintiff 21 suffered an allegedly identical rupture, and its insurance company (the defendant) covered about 22 $493,000 in losses. But this time, the defendant limited coverage to the $15,000 policy limit of the 23 policy’s sump-pump-failure provision. The plaintiff asserts six claims, including breach of 24 contract.1 25 26 27 1 Compl. – ECF No. 1-1 at 1–21. Citations refer to material…