A federal district court in California, in a case pitting one insurance company against another, has issued a decision explaining how to read a policy's self-insured retention (SIR) endorsement.

The interpretation was necessary to determine whether the SIR had been met as to any claims in four underlying actions so as to trigger a duty to defend the entirety of any of the underlying actions.

The provision

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