UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY v. PRATE ROOFING

No. 19-3043.

7 F.4th 573 (2021)

UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PRATE ROOFING & INSTALLATIONS, LLC, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Mueller , Attorney, Cassidy & Mueller, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Catherine Basque Weiler , Attorney, Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Sykes, Chief Judge, and Hamilton and Scudder, Circuit Judges.


The questions in this appeal arose from a fatal on-the-job accident on a commercial roofing project. The central question is whether a liability insurer for a roofing contractor owed a duty to defend another roofing contractor that was an "additional insured" under its policy. The policy covered the "additional insured"...

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