Huggins v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

Shulman, Judge.

Plaintiff-employee and his wife brought suit against defendants-Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. and Standard Fire Insurance Co. (the insurers of plaintiffs employer), alleging that defendants’ negligent inspection of the machinery of their insured (plaintiffs employer) was the proximate cause of plaintiff-employee’s job-related injury. Plaintiffs take this appeal from the trial court’s grant of defendants’ motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

"It is clear that a general liability insurer may incur liability for its negligently performed safety inspection of an insured’s…