High Country Paving, Inc. v. United Fire & Casualty Company

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

HIGH COUNTRY PAVING, Nos. 20-35791

INC., 20-35826

Plaintiff-Appellee/ Cross-Appellant, D.C. No. 9:18-cv-00163-DWM v.

UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY ORDER CERTIFYING

COMPANY, QUESTION TO THE

Defendant-Appellant/ SUPREME COURT OF Cross-Appellee. MONTANA

Filed September 24, 2021

Before: M. Margaret McKeown and Ronald M. Gould, Circuit Judges, and Jed S. Rakoff, * District Judge.

Order

* The Honorable Jed S. Rakoff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, sitting by designation. 2 HIGH COUNTRY PAVING V. UNITED FIRE & CASUALTY

SUMMARY **

Montana Insurance Law

The panel certified to the Supreme Court of Montana the following question:

Whether, when an insurance policy does not include either a table of contents or a notice section of important provisions, in violation of Mont. Code Ann. § 33-15-337(2), the insurer may nonetheless rely on unambiguous exclusions or limitations to the policy’s coverage, given…