Panel Affirms No Excess Coverage, No Bad Faith In Suit Arising From Fatal Fall

(February 11, 2019, 12:23 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 6 affirmed a lower federal court’s finding in favor of a commercial excess liability insurer in a coverage lawsuit stemming from a fall at a Montana mine that killed the insured’s employee (Houston Casualty Company v. Strata Corporation, No. 17-3404, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3936)....