Shippers Development Co. v. General Insurance

Plaintiff supplier appeals from a judgment in a declaratory relief action denying it protection and indemnity under a trucker’s comprehensive liability policy for an injury incurred by one of the trucker’s employees on the supplier’s dock. The supplier contends that it must be indemnified as a permissive user since the injury was incurred, during a ‘ ‘ loading or unloading” operation, and that the employee exclusion in the policy does not apply to a claim of an employee of the named insured against a permissive user as an additional insured.

The trial court disposed of the case on the first…