June 28, 2018
A Texas federal judge ruled Thursday that insurer Ace isn't bound by an underlying $106 million judgment because the proceeding that yielded it wasn't "fully adversarial," in what may be the first federal use of the Texas Supreme Court's splashy Hamel decision.
October 16, 2017
A Texas federal judge ruled Monday that ACE American Insurance Co. has no duty to defend an oil driller hit with a $105.7 million judgment after creating a well that became unusable, saying an exclusion applied to the entire well, and the driller's work couldn't be separated out from the rest.