Mooring Products Corp. v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance Co.

This is an appeal by a davits contractor which the trial court found to be without either of the two types of coverage designated in appellant’s insurance policy — (a) manufacturers’ and contractors’ liability and (b) completed operations.

The claim arose when appellant’s employees replaced standard thirty-five foot cables with forty foot cables at the customer’s request, one month after payment by the customer. The replacement was occasioned by the needs of another party, not the customer, who had rented the customer’s dock where the newly installed davits were located. The other party’s…