Lafayette Life Insurance v. Arch Insurance

OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT L. MILLER, JR., District Judge.

Lafayette Life Insurance Company insured its agencies through an insurance policy issue by Arch Insurance Company. Lafayette Life contends that Arch breached the insurance contract by refusing to defend or indemnify a series of lawsuits filed against Lafayette Life for alleged wrongdoing by Lafayette Life agent Gerald Kloppe. Lafayette Life seeks partial summary judgment and, for the reasons that follow, the court grants that motion in part.

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Summary judgment, of course, should be granted when the admissible evidence, construed in favor of…