A decision in any insurance coverage case may have nationwide impact because of common insurance policy language. As such, one decision can affect insurance claims for hundreds of millions of dollars in dozens of other cases where policyholders are trying to collect from their insurance companies. Therefore, the insurance industry has a huge interest in erasing any precedent that supports a policyholder against an insurance company. Anderson Kill believes that this process is wrong, particularly in a common law system like ours that is built upon, and depends upon, all parties having equal access to the reasoning and learning of people who have previously been confronted with the same issues. The firm has created this Vacatur Center to preserve for everyone those vacated decisions that the few had enough money to make almost disappear.
Some courts prohibit citation to unpublished or vacated decisions in briefs.
If you are citing the decisions posted on the AKO Vacatur Center as legal precedent in a brief, you must review the rules of the court where your action is pending to determine whether that court will allow you to cite these or any other unpublished or vacated decisions. For information on where to locate copies of the appropriate court rules, please contact your local library, law school, or the court in which your action is pending.