United States Fifth Circuit

In an action for insurance proceeds arising out of hurricane damage, summary judgment for Defendant-Insurers is affirmed in part, where one set of policies' sublimit unambiguously applied to hurricane losses, but reversed in part, where one reasonable reading of another group of policies permitted coverage for hurricane damage.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2009
• Published 04/22/2009

Judges

• KING, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, STEWART and SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David J. Beck (argued), Beck, Redden & Secrest, Houston, TX, Rikke A. Dierssen-Morice, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, MN, Michael A. McGlone, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, New Orleans, LA, for Six Flags, Inc., Thomas G. O'Brien, Martin A. Stern (argued), Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, Costantino P. Suriano, Mound, Cotton, Wollan & Greengrass, New York City, for Westchester Surplus Lines Ins. Co., Arch Specialty Ins. Co., Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK) PLC, Commonwealth Ins. Co., Axis Specialty Ins. Co., Continental Cas. Co., Judy Y. Barrasso, Craig Isenberg, Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, New Orleans, LA, Kenneth W. Erickson (argued), Seth C. Harrington, Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, for Liberty Corporate Capital, Ltd.