Fifth Circuit Affirms Ruling that Subcontractor Does Not Have the Duty to Defend or Indemnify General Contractor Pursuant to the Pleadings

The Fifth Circuit applied Texas' "eight-corner" doctrine and affirmed a district court's ruling that a subcontractor did not owe the general contractor a duty to defend or indemnify pursuant to a plaintiff's complaint that did not allege negligence against the subcontractor. Weeks Marine,...