RSUI INDEM. CO. v. AMERICAN STATES INS. CO.

No. 14-30033.

768 F.3d 374 (2014)

RSUI INDEMNITY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant v. AMERICAN STATES INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

September 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daryl Arthur Higgins, Esq. , Ryan Charlton Higgins, Esq. , Gaudry, Ranson, Higgins & Gremillion, L.L.C., Gretna, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

H. Minor Pipes, III , Catherine Fomias Giarrusso, Esq. , Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before REAVLEY, ELROD, and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This is a dispute between excess and primary insurance carriers with a common insured. The excess insurer seeks to recover from the primary the amount that it paid on the insured's behalf to settle excess claims in an underlying lawsuit after the primary insurer had settled its own liability with the underlying plaintiff by paying its policy limit. The excess insurer sued under a theory of subrogation based on the primary insurer's alleged...

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