Hartford Insurance Group and Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. District Court for Fourth Judicial District

JUSTICE QUINN delivered the opinion of the Court. In this original proceeding Hartford Insurance Group and its subsidiary, the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company (insurers), request an order prohibiting the district court of El Paso County from postponing the resolution of a declaratory judgment action which places in issue the insurers' contractual obligations of indemnification and defense to certain named defendants in a pending negligence action commenced by a third party against those defendants. Concomitantly, the insurers seek to compel the district court to postpone the trial of the negligence action until the declaratory relief action has been concluded. We issued a rule to show cause and we now discharge the rule.