Federal Insurance Company, Commerce and Industry Insurance Company, Lexington Insurance Company, Exco Operating Company, LP, and Exco Resources, Inc. v. Select Energy Services, LLC, SES Holdings, LLC, Zurich American Insurance Company, American Guarantee and Liability Insurance Company and Evanston Insurance Company (Affirmed and Corrected)

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Judgment rendered April 27, 2022. No. 54,161-CA ON REHEARING COURT OF APPEAL SECOND CIRCUIT STATE OF LOUISIANA ***** FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY INSURANCE COMPANY, LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY, EXCO OPERATING COMPANY, LP AND EXCO RESOURCES, INC. Plaintiffs-Appellees versus SELECT ENERGY SERVICES, LLC, SES HOLDINGS, LLC, ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, AMERICAN GUARANTEE AND LIABILITY INSURANCE COMPNAY AND EVANSTON INSURANCE COMPANY Defendants-Appellants ***** Per Curiam on Rehearing Originally Appealed from the Forty-Second Judicial District Court for the Parish of DeSoto, Louisiana Trial Court No. 77378 Honorable Eric R. Harrington, Judge (Pro Tempore) ***** GAUDRY, RANSON, HIGGINS & GREMILLION, L.L.C. By: Michael D. Peytavin Counsel for Appellants, Select Energy Services, LLC and SES Holdings, LLC BRINEY FORET CORRY, LLP By: Charles J. Foret Jason Roy Garrot Counsel for Appellants, Zurich American Insurance Company and American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company FRILOT, LLC By: Danica Benbow Denny Kathleen Pontier Rice Patrick J. McShane Counsel for Appellant, Alterra American Insurance Company GIEGER, LABORDE & LAPEROUSE, LLC By: Robert Irwin Siegel Jameson Michael Taylor Counsel for Appellees, Federal Insurance Company, Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, and Lexington Insurance Company ADAMS AND REESE, LLP By: Martin A. Stern Raymond Peter Ward Counsel for Appellees, Federal Insurance Company, Commerce & Industry Insurance Company, and Lexington Insurance Company BARRASSO, USDIN, KUPPERMAN, FREEMAN & SARVER, LLC By: Steven William Usdin Stephen R. Klaffky Counsel for Appellees, EXCO Operating Company, LP & EXCO Resources, Inc. ***** Before MOORE, PITMAN, STONE, STEPHENS, and ROBINSON, JJ. Per Curiam We granted rehearing solely for the purpose of correcting an error in stating that Select’s insurers paid $31 million in settlement of the Paredes lawsuit. Select’s insurers actually settled that case for $1 million. Our error was the result of transposing the settlement amounts in the Paredes lawsuit and the Rodgers lawsuit. Our original opinion is hereby affirmed, and is corrected as stated herein.

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