Hanover Insurance v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

OPINION

DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Hanover Insurance Company, instituted this action against St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, as the errors and omissions insurer of the Humphries-Roy Agency, Inc., of West Monroe, Louisiana. Plaintiff, as principal, alleges that the Agency, as such, failed to carry out a directive to cancel an insurance policy issued by it, the principal, to the agent. Thus, the principal is contending that the agent negligently had caused it to suffer a loss.

Hanover is a foreign insurance corporation authorized to do and doing business in Louisiana, and St. Paul…