Case Title: City of Burlington v. Associated Elec. & Gas Ins. Servs.

Citation: 170 Vt. 358, 751 A.2d 284

Docket Number: 

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 2000-02-25T00:00:00Z

Document:
City of Burlington v. Associated Elec. & Gas Ins. Servs. (98-049); 170 Vt. 358;
751 A.2d 284

[Filed 25-Feb-2000]

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                                 No. 98-049

City of Burlington	                         Supreme Court

                                                 On Appeal from
     v.	                                         Chittenden Superior Court

Association of Gas and Electric 	         January Term, 1999
Insurance Services, Ltd.

Linda Levitt, J.

John L. Franco, Jr., Burlington, and John T. Leddy of McNeil, Leddy & 
  Sheahan, P.C., Burlington, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
     
Joseph E. Frank of Paul, Frank & Collins, Inc., Burlington, for 
  Defendant-Appellant.
   

PRESENT:  Amestoy, C.J., Morse, Johnson, Skoglund, JJ., and Cashman, D.J.

       SKOGLUND, J.   For the third time, we are asked to decide the extent
  of insurance  coverage, if any, available to appellee City of Burlington
  concerning its settlement of a suit  claiming that the City wrongfully
  refused to accept wood chip deliveries as provided in a contract  between
  the City and the owners of a wood products business, the Moffatts.  In the
  first case, we  determined that the City's primary liability policy with
  National Union Fire Insurance Co. (NUFI)  did not require the insurer to
  defend and indemnify the City in response to the Moffatt suit.  See  City
  of Burlington v. National Union Fire Ins. Co., 163 Vt. 124, 126,