Providence Washington Insurance Co. v. Southern Guarantee Insurance Co.

VAN NORTWICK, Judge.

Providence Washington Insurance Company (Providence), the excess insurance carrier insuring the parties’ mutual insured, appeals an order denying its motion to intervene in a declaratory judgment action brought by the primary insurer, Southern Guarantee Insurance Company (Southern), in which Southern seeks a declaration that its duty to defend the parties’ mutual insured has terminated since its policy limits have been exhausted. Because we conclude that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the excess insurer’s request to intervene in the declaratory judgment…