Patterson v. Reliance Insurance Companies

CIRILLO, Judge:

This is an appeal by appellant, Maynard J. Patterson, from a summary judgment entered in favor of appellee. The issue on appeal is whether the personal injury endorsement to Williamsport’s general liability policy provided for an obligation to defend additional insureds in criminal actions or to reimburse those insureds for the costs of such a defense. We hold that it did not and thus affirm the summary judgment.

Appellant was the Chief of Police of Williamsport, Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1975. In 1974 appellant-was charged in a nine count criminal complaint. A jury found him…