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Panel Partly Reverses Ruling In Coverage Dispute Prompted By Defective Contacts
DETROIT - A Michigan appeals panel on Feb. 28 affirmed a lower court's ruling that a commercial insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify its dollar-store insured against products liability and...
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Judge: Professional Services Exclusion Does Not Apply In Ventilator Failure...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - A businessowners insurance policy's professional services exclusion is inapplicable in a coverage dispute stemming from underlying claims that the failure of a ventilator and its...
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10th Circuit Partly Reverses Ruling In Directors, Officers Liability Coverage...
DENVER - The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 25 reversed in part a ruling that an insurer had no duty to defend a homeowners association's officer against an underlying federal lawsuit...
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Panel: Insurer Had Duty To Defend Accountant Against Suit Prompted By IRS Audit
WAUSAU, Wis. - An errors and omissions insurer breached its duty to defend its accounting firm insured against a malpractice lawsuit when it withdrew its defense without first seeking a judicial...
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Insurer Fails To Establish Funeral Services Exclusion Applies, Federal Judge...
MOBILE, Ala. - A commercial general liability insurer has failed to show that its policy's funeral services exclusion bars coverage for underlying claims against its cemetery insured, an Alabama...
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Insurer Did Not Breach Its Contract As It Had No Duty To Defend, Panel Concludes
NEW ORLEANS - A commercial general liability insurer has not breached its contract because it has no duty to defend an insured against allegations that are either purely economic and, thus, not covered...
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Additional Insured Entitled To Attorney Fees, Florida Majority Rules In Reversal
MIAMI - The University of Miami is entitled to be indemnified for attorney fees and costs incurred in an underlying lawsuit stemming from a pool accident, a majority of a Florida appeals panel ruled...
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Federal Judge: Claims Arise Out Of Insured's Performance Of Professional...
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Underlying claims against an insured arise out of its performance or failure to perform professional services, a California federal judge ruled Feb. 26 in a coverage dispute arising...
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Utah High Court: No Defense Owed For Suits Over Marketing Of Weight Loss Product
SALT LAKE CITY - Underlying claims do not "arise out of" an insured's "use of another's advertising idea" in the sense required for coverage under a commercial general liability insurance policy, the...
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No Coverage For Sandusky's Offenses Against Children, Federal Judge Rules
HARRISBURG, Pa. - An insurer has no duty to defend convicted child molester Gerald A. Sandusky under the policy it issued to The Second Mile charity because the conduct alleged in underlying civil and...
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Panel Affirms Transfer Of PSU's Sandusky Coverage Suit To Philadelphia County
PHILADELPHIA - A panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court on Feb. 21 rejected an appeal by Pennsylvania State University (PSU) challenging a lower court's order coordinating two coverage suits over...
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Majority: Louisiana's Direct Action Statute Does Not Trump Reporting Provision
NEW ORLEANS - A lawyers professional liability insurance policy's provision requiring that a claim be reported within the policy's effective period is enforceable in a third party's lawsuit seeking...
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Federal Judge Refuses To Grant Final Judgment In Professional Liability Dispute
BALTIMORE - Finding that discovery is necessary, a Maryland federal judge on Feb. 22 denied an accounting firm insured's motion for final judgment in its declaratory judgment action seeking...
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Insurer Has No Duty To Defend Attorney Insured, Illinois Panel Affirms
CHICAGO - An Illinois appeals panel on Dec. 20 affirmed a lower court's ruling in favor of a professional liability insurer in a dispute over coverage for underlying fraud claims against an attorney...
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Federal Judge: Insurer Has No Duty To Defend Fraud Counterclaim Against Jeweler
DAYTON, Ohio - The only reasonable interpretation of a counterclaim against a jeweler insured is that it is a fraud claim, which is not covered under a business owners special policy, an Ohio federal...
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California Panel Reverses Ruling For Insurer In Employee Theft Coverage Dispute
SAN DIEGO - Finding that an employee dishonesty coverage limitation is not conspicuous, plain and clear, a California appeals panel on Feb. 27 reversed and remanded a lower court's ruling in favor of...
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Panel Partly Reverses Ruling In Coverage Dispute Prompted By Defective Contacts
DETROIT - A Michigan appeals panel on Feb. 28 affirmed a lower court's ruling that a commercial insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify its dollar-store insured against products liability and...
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Judge: Professional Services Exclusion Does Not Apply In Ventilator Failure...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - A businessowners insurance policy's professional services exclusion is inapplicable in a coverage dispute stemming from underlying claims that the failure of a ventilator and its...
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Panel: Insurer Had Duty To Defend Accountant Against Suit Prompted By IRS Audit
WAUSAU, Wis. - An errors and omissions insurer breached its duty to defend its accounting firm insured against a malpractice lawsuit when it withdrew its defense without first seeking a judicial...
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Insurer Fails To Establish Funeral Services Exclusion Applies, Federal Judge...
MOBILE, Ala. - A commercial general liability insurer has failed to show that its policy's funeral services exclusion bars coverage for underlying claims against its cemetery insured, an Alabama...
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