Gilbane Building Co. v. Admiral Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that named insured had to be only “1% or more responsible”
• holding insurer had a duty to indemnify additional insured even when named insured was not part of the underlying suit due to employer immunity
• “We are bound by our own precedent interpreting [state] law unless there has been an intervening change in authority.”
• “In this diversity action, we must apply Texas law as interpreted by Texas state courts.”
• “‘Insured contract’ is a commonly used term of art in Texas insurance law, usually defined by the insurance policy to mean a separate contract that acts as insurance.”
• “[T]he policy here explicitly requires that the injuries be ‘caused, in whole or in part, by’ [the named insured] … [T]he Texas Supreme Court has defined ‘caused by’ as requiring proximate cause.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).