CHANTEL ASSOCIATES v. MT. VERNON

No. 71, September Term, 1994.

338 Md. 131 (1995)

CHANTEL ASSOCIATES, JOEL DAVID CHANANIE & TERESA LEVITIN v. MOUNT VERNON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 13, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn M. Cooper (Patricia M. Weaver, Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenberg & Cooper, Chtd., all on brief), Bethesda, for petitioner.

Robert K. Nead (Sandra B. Minton, O'Doherty, Nead, Hoffman & Karey, all on brief), Baltimore, Julie C. Janofsky (Ward, Janofsky & Truhe, P.A., all on brief), Towson, (Sidney G. Leech, Linda S. Woolf, Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Gray, Catherine A. Potthast, Smith, Somerville & Case, all on briefs), Baltimore, for respondent.

Robert E. Scott, Jr., Stephen S. McCloskey, Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, for amicus curiae Maryland Cas. Co.

H. Thomas Howell, David A. Carter, John S. Bainbridge, Jr., Kathleen D. Leslie, Charles J. Kresslein, Howell, Gately, Whitney & Carter, Towson, for amicus curiae American Ins. Assn.

Mark Kolman, Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, P.C., Washington, DC, for Mid-America Legal Foundation, of counsel Irene C. Warshauer, Bhamati Viswanathan, Anderson Kill Olick & Oshinsky, P.C., Martha Churchill, Mid-America Legal Foundation, of Chicago, IL.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

This appeal arises out of an action filed by Scottsdale Insurance Company (Scottsdale) against Chantel Associates (Chantel) seeking a declaration that Scottsdale had no duty to defend or indemnify Chantel in a tort action.1 That tort action (hereinafter referred to as the Epperson action) was instituted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against Chantel2 by Valerie McCree, individually...

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