Article: Legal Battles Continue for San Diego-Based Golden Eagle Insurance.

By Penni Crabtree, The San Diego Union-Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 14--It may be the most costly piece of dirt-moving machinery in history.

In October, a Riverside jury ordered San Diego's Golden Eagle Insurance Corp. to pay $7.5 million in punitive damages after the company refused to pay a $57,500 claim on the theft of a backhoe.

The eye-popping jury award in favor of Corona-based Pacific Coast Machinery could prove to be a passing legal oddity. But court documents indicate more litigation on the horizon as Golden Eagle battles allegations by a former executive that the company instituted a policy that denied some ...

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