Ohio Casualty Insurance Company v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, Lori Allenbrand Tri-State Traffic Control, Inc.

DOTY, District Judge.

This is a diversity-based insurance coverage dispute that arose out of a fatal automobile collision at a railroad crossing in Lafeyette County, Arkansas. Ohio Casualty Insurance Company (“Ohio Casualty”) filed this action seeking a declaratory judgment that it had no duty to defend Union Pacific Railroad Company (“Union Pacific”) in litigation commenced as a result of the collision. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Ohio Casualty, concluding that the railroad was not an additional insured under the policies that Ohio Casualty had issued to Tri-State…