No Coverage For Suit Against Deepwater Project Contractor, Panel Affirms

Mealey's (August 31, 2015, 2:18 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 27 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling that primary and excess insurers have no duty to defend their insured against the United States’ lawsuit arising from the insured’s multimillion-dollar contract to upgrade eight U.S. Coast Guard vessels (XL Specialty Insurance Company v. Bollinger Shipyards, Incorporated, et al., No. 14-31283, 5th Cir.; 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 15160)....