Jefferson Insurance v. National Union Fire Insurance

Two insurance companies here clash over whose policy should provide coverage to their common insured, an ambulance company sued for negligence. The alleged negligent conduct was delay on the part of the company’s ambulance, summoned by the local police to re*95spond to a medical emergency,1 in arriving at the residence of a man who had collapsed with chest pain. The stricken individual died shortly after being transported by the ambulance to a nearby hospital emergency room. An action brought against the company by the decedent’s administratrix and widow attributed the death to that delay.2…