Blue Diamond Coal Co. v. Holland-America Insurance Co.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This case involves a question of insurance coverage. Plaintiff-Appellant, Blue Diamond Coal Company, contends that the insurance policies at issue extend coverage to it for common law liability resulting from wrongful death actions brought against it by the survivors of fifteen miners who were killed by a mine explosion in a Kentucky coal mine. Defendants-Appel-lees, Holland-America Insurance Company et al.,1 argue that the policies in question do not extend coverage to Blue Diamond because the deceased miners were working for Scotia Coal Company when the accident…