Would You Believe that an Insurer’s Policy Violates the “Efficient Proximate Cause” Doctrine? Believe it!

A homeowners’ insurance policy does not always mean what it says.  That is, in effect, what the California Court of Appeal recently concluded in Vardanyan v. AMCO Ins. Co., 243 Cal. App. 4th 779 (2015), a case involving the well-established “efficient proximate cause”...