Guaranty National Insurance v. North River Insurance

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

This case arises out of a psychiatric patient’s suicide at Texarkana, Texas, Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s liability is established. The district court resolved a dispute between the hospital’s primary insurers and the hospital’s excess liability insurers by holding that an exclusion in the hospital’s primary comprehensive general liability policy did not apply to preclude coverage under that policy and that the single claim limit of liability in the hospital’s primary professional malpractice policy applied. We affirm.

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On September 13, 1983, Margaret…