Travelers Insurance Companies v. Dickey

OPALA, Vice Chief Justice.

This certiorari petition tenders for review but two issues: 1) whether the roofing contractor (defendant at nisi prius), hired by the insured and alleged to have negligently caused damage to the latter’s property, for which the insurer has paid, can be considered a co-insured whose status makes him immune from liability to the insurer on its subrogation claim and 2) whether the pre-loss mutual “waiver” of liability agreement between the contractor and the insured owner bars the insurer’s subrogation claim against the contractor. We answer both questions in the…