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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that an insurance policy’s no-voluntary payment provision barred coverage of an insured’s demand that the insurer pay for a settlement the insured had reached with its customer.