Kentucky Insurance Guaranty Ass'n v. Natural Resources & Environmental Protection Cabinet

VANCE, Justice.

These appeals, heard together at oral argument, are from a summary judgment in a declaratory judgment proceeding in the trial court which held, in effect, that the appellants must respond to certain claims of the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet. We granted a transfer of the appeals to this court.

The controversy arises from the fact that a number of insurance companies which have executed surety bonds to the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet (hereinafter referred to as the Cabinet) to guarantee the faithful performance of the…