Case Name: TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, v. AMERISURE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellant, Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company, Defendant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-01-17
Citations: 674 F. App'x 957
Docket Number: No. 16-11227
Parties: TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, v. AMERISURE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellant, Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company, Defendant.
Judges: Before MARCUS, DUBINA, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 674
Pages: 957–958

Head Matter:
TRAVELERS PROPERTY CASUALTY COMPANY OF AMERICA, Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee, v. AMERISURE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Counter Claimant-Appellant, Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company, Defendant.
No. 16-11227
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Filed (January 17, 2017)
William Gray Dunlap, Jr., W. Gray Dunlap, Jr., PA, St. Petersburg, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellee
Donald Edwin Elder, Law Office of Donald Elder, Elk Grove Village, IL, Abraham Sandoval, Brett Warning, Emerson & Elder, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellant
Before MARCUS, DUBINA, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.
Honorable John Walker, Jr., United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
- Amerisure Insurance Company ("Ameri-sure") appeals the:district court's grant of summary judgment on the issue of liability in favor of Travelers Property Casualty-Company of America ("Travelers"), in Travelers's breach-of-contract action against Amerisure. The central issue in the case is whether Amerisure was obligated to defend a general contractor as an additional insured under a subcontractor's liability policy. The case arose out of a condominium construction project for which W.G. Yates & Sons Construction Company ("Yates") was the general contractor and Jemco Plastering, Inc. ("Jemco") was a subcontractor. Yates was insured by Travelers, and Jemco was insured by Ameri-sure. After construction was completed, the condominium's unit-owners association sued Yates for breach of contract, code violations, and negligence, and Yates asserted third-party claims against Jemco and other implicated subcontractors. Am-erisure denied Yates's demand for coverage, and Travelers filed this action in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida alleging that Amerisure had a duty t.o defend Yates as an additional insured under Jemco's policy.
On appeal, Amerisure argues that the district court erred in ruling: (1) that Am-erisure wrongfully refused to defend Yates in the state court action, and Travelers was entitled to recover the attorney's fees and costs it incurred in defending Yates in the face of Amerisure's refusal to defend; and (2) that Yates' pursuit of third-party claims was a reasonable part of its strategy for defending the claims and, because Amerisure breached its duty to defend, Amerisure was not permitted to second guess that strategy. After thorough review and having taken oral argument, we affirm the entry of summary judgment for the reasons outlined in the district court's well-reasoned September 30, 2015 order.
AFFIRMED.