XL SPEC. INS. CO. v. BOLLINGER SHIPYARDS, INC.

No. 14-31283.

800 F.3d 178 (2015)

XL SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. BOLLINGER SHIPYARDS, INCORPORATED; Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, L.L.C.; Halter Bollinger Joint Venture, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees. Bollinger Shipyards, Incorporated; Bollinger Shipyards Lockport, L.L.C.; Halter Bollinger Joint Venture, L.L.C., Plaintiffs-Appellants Cross-Appellees, v. XL Specialty Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee Cross-Appellant. Continental Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 27, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth G. Engerrand, I, Esq. (argued), Brown Sims, P.C., David Stephen Toy , Michael Aaron Varner, Esq. , Atty., Houston, TX, Carmelite M. Bertaut , Abigayle Clary McDowell Farris , Phillip A. Wittmann , Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant.

Robert S. Reich, Esq. (argued), Michael Thomas Wawrzycki , Reich, Album & Plunkett, L.L.C., Metairie, LA, for Defendant-Appellant Cross-Appellee.

John Francis Emmett, I (argued), Jordan Nichole Teich, Esq. , Waits, Emmett & Popp, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JONES and GRAVES, Circuit Judges.


Bollinger Shipyards won a multimillion dollar contract to upgrade eight United States Coast Guard 110-foot cutters to 123-foot craft. The vessels failed and the United States sued Bollinger. The defendant insurers refused to undertake Bollinger's defense. In Bollinger's suit to enforce the insurance contract, the district...

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