ARAGONA v. ST. PAUL FIRE & MAR. INS.

[No. 4, September Term, 1977.]

281 Md. 371 (1977)

378 A.2d 1346

XAVIER ARAGONA ET AL. v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 3, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald S. Schimel and Karl G. Feissner, with whom were Feissner, Garrity, Levan & Schimel on the brief, for appellants.

James M. Heffler for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider the proper interpretation of an exclusionary provision in a policy of lawyer's malpractice insurance issued to attorney Mitchell Myers by the appellee, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. (St. Paul). Under the policy, St. Paul agreed to pay on behalf of Myers:

"all sums which the Insured shall become legally obligated to pay as damages arising out of the performance...

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