5th Circ. Says $950K Death Payment Lets Insurer Off Hook

By Y. Peter Kang ( November 12, 2019, 9:42 PM EST) -- The Fifth Circuit has affirmed a lower court's ruling that an insurance company needn't defend a suit over the electrocution death of a drilling company worker, saying it fulfilled its obligations under the relevant policy when it paid the worker's parents $950,000. . . .

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