Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Protective National Insurance Co. of Omaha

This is an appeal by the defendant Aetna Casualty & Surety Company [Aetna], a primary general liability insurance carrier, from an adverse final summary judgment finding it vicariously liable for the negligence of the attorney it selected to defend its insured *306[when the attorney failed to raise a meritorious statute of limitations defense in a personal injury suit] — so that the plaintiff Protective National Insurance Company of Omaha, an excess general liability insurance carrier, was entitled in an equitable subrogation action to recover the monies it extended in partially paying off the…