Smith v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

This appeal is from a declaratory judgment of the Superior Court (Thayer, J.), see RSA 491:22, construing a corporation’s liability policy that includes coverage for an “executive officer” as an unnamed insured. The trial court sustained the insurer’s denial of coverage to the corporation’s plant manager, on the grounds that the quoted term is not ambiguous, see Commercial Union Assurance Cos. v. Town of Derry, 118 N.H. 469, 471, 387 *119A.2d 1171, 1172 (1978), rev’d in part, American Home Assurance Co. v. Fish, 122 N.H. 711, 715, 451 A.2d 358, 360 (1982), that the coverage claimant is therefore…