CENTURY SURETY COMPANY v. CHARLES A. POLISSO
Filed 5/22/06
CERTIFIED FOR PUBLICATION
IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
THIRD APPELLATE DISTRICT
(Sacramento)
CENTURY SURETY COMPANY, Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant, v. CHARLES A. POLISSO et al., Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents. | C045334 (Super. Ct. No. 98ASO1461) |
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County, Lloyd A. Phillips, Jr., Judge. Affirmed.
Chapman, Popik & White, Susan M. Popik, David Nied, Merri A. Baldwin; Bonetati, Sasaki, Kincaid & Kincaid, Marilyn L. Bonetati, for Plaintiff, Cross-defendant and Appellant.
Bolling, Walter & Gawthrop, Theodore D. Bolling, Jr., Marjorie E. Manning; Farmer, Murphy, Smith & Alliston, George E. Murphy and Suzanne M. Nicholson, for Defendants, Cross-complainants and Respondents.
Century Surety Company (Century), an insurance company, appeals from the judgment after a jury awarded Charles and Therese Polisso (the Polissos) and Kinzel Glass Company (Kinzel) $637,911 in total compensatory damages and $2,015,000 in punitive damages on their cross-complaint for, inter alia, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and malicious prosecution.
In 1996 Chuck Polisso, as â€
