Block v. Employers Casualty Co.

OPINION

CANTU, Justice.

This is an appeal from a suit alleging a breach of an insurance contract by the insurer/appellee Employers Casualty Company (Employers Casualty). The insured, Coating Specialists, Inc. (CSI), was originally sued by the appellants, George and Margie Block, for property damage to the Blocks’ home allegedly the result of the breach of various warranties by CSI.

CSI, a roofing contractor, had installed a monoflex roof with an elastomeric plastic coating on a house in San Antonio, Texas, in 1977. The Blocks purchased the home in February 1978. In August 1979, the Blocks…