Legal Opinion
American Home Assurance Co. v. Safway Steel Products Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided December 9, 1987No. 3-86-077-CVPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARROLL, Justice.
Appellants, American Home Assurance and National Union Fire Insurance, appeal from a declaratory judgment in favor of appellees, Rawlings Sporting Goods and Safway Steel Products, concerning insurance coverage of punitive damage awards. The litigation follows two separate product liability actions in which Texas juries had assessed punitive damages.
The issues in this appeal fall broadly into three principal categories: (1) conflicts of law; (2) construction of the language of the insurance agreements in question; and (3) the insurability of punitive damage awards as a matter…
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