Green v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Company

OPINION

GREENWOOD, Judge:

¶ 1 Defendants State Farm Fire & Casualty Company and State Farm General Insurance Company (State Farm) appeal the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Plaintiffs Edward D. Green and Ed Green Construction, Inc. State Farm argues that it had no duty to defend when Plaintiffs were sued by James Ashley Fennell II (Fennell) after a building lot (the Lot) he owned was damaged by a landslide. We reverse.

BACKGROUND

¶ 2 In 1992, Plaintiff Edward D. Green and his partner, Neil Wall, entered into an agreement to develop twelve acres of land in Lay-ton, Utah. They…