October 25, 2019
A Louisiana anti-indemnity law stands in the way of an energy company's efforts to compel its insurer to defend it after it was sued by two workers injured in a pipeline explosion, the Fifth Circuit has held.
February 06, 2019
A Louisiana federal judge has ruled that Phillips 66 Co. cannot force a contractor's insurer to fund its defense of two suits filed by workers who were injured in a 2017 natural gas pipeline explosion, finding that a Pelican State statute voids the contractor's extension of coverage to Phillips 66.