Hartford Insurance Group v. Royal-Globe Company

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

This was an action for declaratory relief wherein the appellant requested the trial court to determine the rights, duties and obligations of the appellee with respect to a pending personal injury suit. The court decreed that appellee had no duty to defend or indemnify Stearns-Roger Corporation, a defendant in the personal injury action. This appeal followed.

Stearns-Roger Corporation, hereainafter referred to as Stearns-Roger, was the prime contractor on a job for Magma Copper Company at San Manuel, Arizona. Stearns-Roger entered into a written subcontract with Western…