Legal Opinion

Colony National Insurance Co. v. United Fire & Casualty Co.

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided January 31, 2017No. 16-40676UnpublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

JACQUES WIENER, Circuit Judge: *

Plaintiff-Appellee Colony National Insurance Company (“Colony”) claims that Defendant-Appellant United Fire & Casualty Company (“United”) had a duty to defend Carothers Construction, Incorporated (“Carothers”) in a personal injury lawsuit and seeks to recover half the costs of defending Carothers in that lawsuit. The district court granted Colony’s motion for summary judgment, holding that United owed a duty to defend Carothers in the underlying lawsuit and owed Colony half the costs of defending Carothers. United appeals that ruling, contending that the…

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