UNIGARD SEC. INS. CO. v. MURPHY OIL USA, INC.

No. 96-843.

962 S.W.2d 735 (1998)

331 Ark. 211

UNIGARD SECURITY INSURANCE COMPANY and Employers Surplus Lines Insurance Co., Appellants, v. MURPHY OIL USA, INC., Appellee, v. ASSOCIATED INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE CO., Cross-appellee, v. LLOYD'S OF LONDON, Cross-appellee, v. CENTURY INDEMNITY CO., Cross-appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

January 29, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Williams & Anderson by Leon Holmes, Steven W. Quattlebaum, Little Rock, for appellant Unigard Sec. Ins. Co.

James, Yeatman & Carter, P.L.C. by Daniel R. Carter, for appellant Employers Surplus Lines Insurance Company; Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay by G. Kenneth Norrie and Kurt H. Dunkle, and Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen and Young, A Professional Corporation, by James W. Christie, of counsel.

James E. Baine, Murphy Oil USA, Inc., Compton, Prewett, Thomas & Hickey by Robert C. Compton, El Dorado, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings by M. Samuel Jones III, Claire Shows Hancock, Little Rock, for appellee Murphy Oil USA, Inc..

Shackleford, Phillips, Wineland & Ratcliff, P.A. by Teresa Wineland, El Dorado, for cross-appellee Associated Intern. Ins. Co.

Phelps Dunbar, L.L.P. by George B. Hall, Jr., New Orleans, LA, Bridges, Young, Matthews & Drake PLC by Stephen A. Matthews, Pine Bluff, AR, for cross-appellee Cheshire and Companies (styled and referred to in cross-appeal as Lloyd's of London).

White and Williams by E. Douglas Sederhold, Susan Dignam Coletsky, Frank J. Perch III, Philadelphia, PA, Griffin, Rainwater & Draper, P.A. by Paul S. Rainwater, Crossett, AR, for cross-appellee Century Indemnity Company.


NEWBERN, Justice.

This is an insurance coverage case. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., the appellee, filed suit in Union County against a number of its insurance carriers seeking a declaration that the carriers were obligated under certain general comprehensive liability ("CGL") policies to indemnify Murphy Oil for a judgment for compensatory and punitive damages previously rendered against it in a federal district court in Alabama. Prior to trial in Union County, certain insurance...

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