Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania v. Rli Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that excess policy issued to downstream contractor and covering upstream contractor as additional insured was liable before upstream contractor’s own insurance
• construing Arkansas law to give controlling effect to an indemnity clause even though indemnitee had insurance
• finding an indemnity agreement applied to obligate the indemnitor to protect the indem-nitee and the indemnitee’s insurer from liability arising from the settlement of a personal injury claim
• predicting Arkansas law and holding that “it [was] unnecessary to resolve these issues about the ‘other insurance’ clauses” because “the indemnity agreement controls the outcome, not the ‘other insurance’ clauses”
• “Insurance policies are contracts, and so, as with any contract, we begin our analysis with the language of the agreements.”
• indemnification provisions in contract between supplier and retailer obligated supplier to protect retailer and its primary insurer from liability arising from settlement of products liability action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).