Law360, New York (August 01, 2012, 8:49 PM ET) -- Amerisure Insurance Co. took the rare step Monday of asking the Fifth Circuit to let the Texas Supreme Court decide key questions raised in a coverage suit it already won against a construction company, after construction industry groups and insurance brokers decried the ruling for broadening the scope of contractual liability exclusions.
In 2-1 ruling handed down in June, the Fifth Circuit held that Amerisure had no duty under a commercial general liability policy to defend Ewing Construction Co. Inc. against a school district's lawsuit over...