Judge: Lee W. Tsao, Case: VC065473, Date: 2024-02-29 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: VC065473    Hearing Date: March 7, 2024    Dept: C

WNG CONSTRUCTION JV, INC. v. AAA SOLAR ELECTRIC, INC.

CASE NO.:  VC065473

HEARING:  03/07/24

 

ADD ON

 

Defendants/Cross-Complainants AAA SOLAR ELECTRIC, INC. and Defendants PHILADELPHIA INDEMNITY INSURANCE COMPANY and SAFETY NATIONAL CASUALTY CORP.’s Motion for Distribution of Funds Held Pursuant to Appeal Bond is GRANTED.

 

Moving Party to give Notice.

 

The Court has reviewed Plaintiff/Judgment Creditor WNG CONSTRUCTION JV, INC.’s (“WNG”) Objections to the Proposed Order filed on March 6, 2024. WNG’s Objections are SUSTAINED.

 

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions America Insurance Corporation Bond #2343660 shall be fully discharged and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions America Insurance Corporation shall be forever released and exonerated by WNG CONSTRUCTION JV, Inc. from any further liability under Bond #2343660, limited to the appeal bond number affected. As indicated in the Objection to the Proposed Judgment filed on March 6, 2024, “there are still several appeals subject to the outcome of the pending appeals that are not being exonerated”. (Obj. #2.)

 

The issues of overpayment and/or whether the judgment has been paid in full were not properly noticed for this hearing date, and are improperly adjudicated at this time. Moving Party is not foreclosed from seeking these orders via separately noticed motion, if necessary.

 

Subject to the limitations above, the Motion is GRANTED. Moving Party is ORDERED to submit a Proposed Order within 5 days of the Court’s issuance of this Order in compliance with this Court’s Order. The Court will sign the Moving Party’s Amended Proposed Order, to the extent that the terms of the Amended Proposed Order are in compliance with this Order.

 

The Clerk of Court will then be directed to withdraw the Swiss Re Corporate Solutions America Insurance Corporation bond from the files of the Court and deliver the original Swiss Re Corporate Solutions America Insurance Corporation bond to counsel for Defendants, Mark Feldman, of Feldman & Associates, Inc., limited to the appeal bond number affected.