Universal Towing Co. v. Hartford Fire Insurance

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

REGAN, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a party defendant in an admiralty action pending before another judge in this district, seeks a declaratory judgment respecting the coverage of a policy of insurance issued to plaintiff by defendant and the obligation of defendant to defend said action.

The policy in question, No. 98 OM 301435, dated as of October 10, 1964, and effective for one year, was a “new” policy insofar as defendant was concerned, pri- or insurance having been written by a different company through a different insurance agency. The geographical scope of the…