Transamerica Premier Insurance Company v. Ray Miller Earl Robert Brown, Jr.

OPINION

WIGGINS, Circuit Judge:

Transamerica Premier Insurance Company (“Appellant”) appeals from a district court’s affirmance of a bankruptcy court’s summary judgment holding Appellant liable to the customers of an escrow agent to whom Appellant had issued a bond. We affirm.

FACTS AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

E. Robert Brown and his wife, Montana residents, owned an escrow business named Guaranty Escrow Services, Inc. (“GES”). GES purchased insurance through Cogswell Agency and agent Bill Gue. GES had a blanket fidelity bond from 1982-85 covering employee theft. GES dropped this bond in 1985. In 1985…