Legal Opinion
Esicorp, Inc. St. Louis Testing Laboratories, Inc., - Appellees/ Cross v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, - Appellant/ Cross
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1999No. 98-2912, 98-3040PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Esicorp, Inc. (“Esicorp”) sued St. Louis Testing Laboratories, Inc. (“SLT”) for negligence.' SLT’s liability insurer, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (“Liberty Mutual”), refused to defend SLT. Esicorp and SLT then settled that lawsuit — which we shall call the underlying action- — agreeing that most of SLT’s settlement obligation could be recovered only from Liberty Mutual. Esicorp, suing on behalf of itself and SLT, then commenced this diversity action against Liberty Mutual to recover the settlement amount and punitive damages for bad faith breach of the insurer’s…
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