Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Selective Insurance Company of SC, No. 14-1447 (4th Cir. 2014)
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UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT No. 14-1447 NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as successor by merger to Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company, Plaintiff – Appellee, v. SELECTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Defendant – Appellant, and WELL SERVICE GROUP, INC.; TECHNICAL SERVICES, INC., JOSHUA UNDERWOOD; DIAMOND Defendants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia, at Clarksburg. Irene M. Keeley, District Judge. (1:13-cv-00104-IMK) Submitted: November 26, 2014 Decided: December 8, 2014 Before KING, KEENAN, and WYNN, Circuit Judges. Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion. Kenneth M. Portner, WEBER GALLAGHER SIMPSON STAPLETON FIRES & NEWBY, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellant. Brian S. Kane, Matthew A. Meyers, DAPPER, BALDASARE, BENSON, BEHLING & KANE, P.C., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for Appellee. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. 2 PER CURIAM: Selective (Selective) appeals Insurance from the Company district of South court’s Carolina order granting summary judgment in favor of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company (Nationwide) in Nationwide’s declaratory judgment action against Selective seeking a declaration from the court that Nationwide had no duty to defend or indemnify Selective’s insureds with respect to any claim arising out of an October 2012 automobile accident. Finding no error, we affirm. We review a district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo, viewing the facts and drawing reasonable inferences in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party. Halpern v. Wake Forest Univ. Health Scis., 669 F.3d 454, 460 (4th Cir. 2012). genuine Summary dispute judgment as to is any appropriate material fact entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” 56(a). when and “there the is no movant is Fed. R. Civ. P. A district court should grant summary judgment unless a reasonable jury could return a verdict for the nonmoving party on the evidence presented. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 249 (1986). With these standards in mind, we have reviewed the record and examined each of Selective’s claims and conclude that they are without merit. Pennsylvania law to The district court correctly applied conclude that 3 Selective’s insured, Well Service Group, Inc. (WSG), was the sole owner of the vehicle involved in the October 2012 accident and that Nationwide had no duty to defend or indemnify WSG or its employee with respect to any claim arising out of the accident. Accordingly, we affirm the district court’s judgment. We grant Nationwide’s unopposed motion to file a surreply brief, and consider the brief tendered with the motion. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before this court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED 4
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