Zenti v. Home Insurance Co.

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Defendant-insurer appeals declaratory judgment holding “employee exclusion” in liability policy issued to corporation is inapplicable and thus it is obligated to defend two “executive officers” of the corporation in suit filed against them by a company employee injured during the course of his employment.

The relevant circumstances giving rise to the litigation were incorporated in a stipulation of facts filed with the trial court. In summary, these facts are that on October 22,1973, William Mark Buttrey, an employee of Venetian Iron Works, Inc., sustained an accidental…