Creole Explorations, Inc. v. Underwriters at Lloyd's London

A. WILMOT DALFERES, Judge ad hoc

(dissenting).

Plaintiff entered into a contract of insurance with defendants to protect itself against certain unusual expenses incurred as a result of the hazards of its business. Specifically, the policy provided that plaintiff should recover expenses incurred in regaining control of an oil and gas well which it was in the process of drilling, when such expenses were resulting from: “Blowout and/or Cratering.”

*389The Court observes that the term “blowout,” the pertinent provision in the instant case, is referred to in the same category as fire —…