St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Building Construction Enterprises, Inc.

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a general contractor, sought coverage under two insurance policies for expenses associated with the repair and reconstruction of a subcontractor’s installation of underground concrete structures at a military base in Fort Riley, Kansas. Appellee-insurers brought the present declaratory judgment action to determine whether they owed coverage. The district court 1 applied Missouri law, the law of the forum state, to determine whether Missouri or Kansas substantive law should govern the insurance policies. See Eggleton v. Plasser & Theurer Exp. Von…