Lloyd's Syndicate No. 5820 d/b/a Cassidy Davis v. AGCO Corp.; AGCO Corp. v. Lloyd's Syndicate No. 5820 d/b/a Cassidy Davis; Glynn Gen. Purchasing Grp. Inc. v. AGCO Corp.

The language of the extended protection plans and master insurance policy at issue unambiguously did ' "not exclude or limit coverage for a design or engineering defect," ' such as the one alleged on the agricultural spray applicator, which the plaintiff manufactured and sold.

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AGCO Corporation manufactured and sold agricultural equipment, offering extended protection plans to its customers. Warranty Specialists, Inc. d/b/a Glynn General Corporation sold the extended protection plans to AGCO and administered the plans. Glynn General Purchasing Group, Inc. “GGPG” obtained a master policy of liability insurance for AGCO from Lloyd’s Syndicate No. 5820 d/b/a Cassidy Davis to provide coverage to AGCO for its liability to AGCO’s customers pursuant to the extended protection plans. When Warranty Specialists later suspended payment of warranty claims filed in connection with failed wheel motors on equipment enrolled in the extended protection plans, AGCO sued. The trial court granted AGCO’s motion for partial summary judgment and denied Cassidy Davis’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of whether the extended protection plans and the master insurance policy covered or excluded coverage for equipment failures resulting from a design or engineering defect. The court denied Cassidy Davis’s motion for summary judgment on AGCO’s claims for bad faith refusal to pay. It also denied AGCO’s summary judgment motion based on estoppel and the inapplicability of an exclusion clause in the master insurance policy, and denied summary judgment to Warranty Specialists and GGPG on various claims, including those for breach of contract, fraud and attorney fees. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgments.

AGCO manufactured and sold an agricultural spray applicator known as the RoGator. The RoGator was powered by four wheel motors; the failure of one wheel motor caused the entire machine to stop functioning.

Lloyd's Syndicate No. 5820 d/b/a Cassidy Davis v. AGCO Corp.; AGCO Corp. v. Lloyd's Syndicate No. 5820 d/b/a Cassidy Davis; Glynn Gen. Purchasing Grp. Inc. v. AGCO Corp.

The language of the extended protection plans and master insurance policy at issue unambiguously did ' "not exclude or limit coverage for a design or engineering defect," ' such as the one alleged on the agricultural spray applicator, which the plaintiff manufactured and sold.

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