Federal Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss City’s Claims In Collapse Dispute

Mealey's (March 12, 2018, 8:55 AM EDT) -- NATCHEZ, Miss. — Dismissal of an insurer’s claims against a Mississippi city that filed a negligence suit against an insured after the insured’s building collapsed is not warranted because the coverage claims at issue in the insurer’s federal suit are different from the claims alleged by the city in the underlying state suit, a Mississippi federal judge said March 8 (Hudson Specialty Insurance Co. v. Talex Enterprises LLC, et al., No. 17-137, S.D. Miss., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37873)....