Hartford Cas. Ins. Co. v. DP Engine, No. 15-10443 (5th Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseIn the underlying lawsuits, individuals filed suit against DP and its employee after the individuals were injured in an industrial accident at an Entergy nuclear power plant. In this case, DP's insurers, Hartford Casualty Insurance Company and Hartford Lloyds Insurance Company, seek a declaratory judgment that they have no duty to defend or to indemnify DP in the underlying suits. The district court granted summary judgment to the insurers. The court concluded that the underlying lawsuits fall within the professional services exclusion because the factual allegations in the underlying complaints describe injuries that “arise out of” DP’s and the employee’s allegedly negligent engineering services. Therefore, the district court correctly entered summary judgment for Hartford that there was no duty to defend. Likewise, the court affirmed the district court's resolution of DP's counterclaims related to the duty to defend. The court concluded, however, that the district court should not have determined the duty to indemnify based solely on the pleadings in the underlying lawsuit. Therefore, the court reversed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Hartford on the duty to indemnify and remanded for further proceedings.
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