TRINITY UNIVERSAL INS. CO. v. EMPLOYERS MUT. CAS.

No. 08-20532.

592 F.3d 687 (2010)

TRINITY UNIVERSAL INSURANCE COMPANY; Utica National Insurance; National American Insurance Company, Subrogees of Lacy Masonry, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. EMPLOYERS MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 4, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian S. Martin (argued) and Kevin Frank Risley, Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Trinity Universal Ins. Co., Utica Nat. Ins. and Nat. American Ins. Co.

Aaron Linzy Mitchell (argued) and Stephen A. Melendi, Tollefson, Bradley, Ball & Mitchell, Dallas, TX, for Employers Mut. Cas. Co.

Levon G. Hovnatanian and Christopher Weldon Martin, Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Continental Cas. Co., Amicus Curiae.

Lee Howard Shidlofsky, Visser Shidlofsky, L.L.P., Austin, TX, pro se, Amicus Curiae.

Dennis D. Gibson, Gibson, McClure, Wallace & Daniels, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, pro se, Amicus Curiae.

Craig Lee Reese, Fletcher, Farley, Shipman & Salinas, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, pro se, Amicus Curiae.

Augustus William Arnold, III, A. William Arnold, III & Associates, Dallas, TX, pro se, Amicus Curiae.

David Morgan Pruessner (argued) and Jes Alexander, Law Offices of David M. Pruessner, Dallas, TX, for Amerisure Ins. Co., Amicus Curiae.

Before JOLLY, DeMOSS and PRADO, Circuit Judges.


PRADO, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents an issue of first impression. In Mid-Continent Insurance Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 236 S.W.3d 765 (Tex.2007), the Texas Supreme Court held that if relevant insurance policies to a dispute contain pro rata or "other insurance" clauses, and a co-primary insurer pays more than its pro rata portion of a settlement to indemnify an insured and another co-primary insurer underpays...

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