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BLUE DIAMOND COAL v. HOLLAND-AMERICA INS. CO.

671 S.W.2d 829 (1984)

BLUE DIAMOND COAL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. HOLLAND-AMERICA INSURANCE COMPANY, Lexington Insurance Company, John Basil Thomas Bird & Companies and American Re-Insurance Company, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

May 7, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Foster D. Arnett, Dan D. Rhea, Knoxville, for plaintiff-appellant; Speight & Parker, Nashville, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Louisville, Ky., of counsel.

E. Bruce Foster, Jr., Knoxville, Richard J. Geddes, Chicago, Ill., John David Cole, Bowling Greene, Ky., for defendants-appellees.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

This case involves a question of insurance coverage. Plaintiff-Appellant, Blue Diamond Coal Company, contends that the insurance policies at issue extend coverage to it for common law liability resulting from wrongful death actions brought against it by the survivors of fifteen miners who were killed by a mine explosion in a Kentucky coal mine. Defendants-Appellees, Holland-America Insurance Company et al.,1

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