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Illinois Court Holds Shooting “Arose Out Of” Premises For Purposes Of Additional Insured Endorsement
In Dominick’s Finer Foods v. Indiana Insurance Company, et al., 2018 IL App (1st) 161864, an Illinois Appellate Court held a grocery store was entitled to additional insured coverage for a shooting incident under an endorsement covering damage that arose out… Continue Reading →
In Crown Tree Service, Inc. v. Atain Specialty Insurance Company, the underlying U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held that there was no coverage for a suit against the insured tree service by the owner of land… Continue Reading →
UPDATE: This blog post was originally posted on November 13, 2017. The California Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in this matter. Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of Am. v. Actavis, Inc., No. S245867, 2018 WL 1004810 (Cal. Feb. 21,… Continue Reading →
We recently completed our 50-State Survey addressing whether faulty workmanship involves an “occurrence” or “property damage,” but the cases keep coming. Just weeks after we published the survey, the Tenth Circuit published an opinion predicting New York’s highest court would… Continue Reading →
Two recent Eighth Circuit cases illustrate the importance of CGL policy language in determining whether a claim is potentially covered loss or an uncovered business risk. In Electrical Power Sys. Int’l, Inc. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co., — F.3d —-,… Continue Reading →
In Vivify Constr., LLC v. Nautilus Ins. Co., 2017 IL App (1st) 170192, an Illinois appellate court upheld a lower court’s finding that Nautilus Insurance Group (“Nautilus”) had no duty to defend a general contractor in a personal injury suit… Continue Reading →
In State Farm Insurance Company v. Heide Organek, No. 3:16cv000474, 2018 WL 624635 (D. Conn. Jan. 30, 2018), the court held an auto exclusion barred coverage for an accident involving the insured’s pizza delivery driver. The court’s holding turned on… Continue Reading →
The policyholder in Maids on Call, LLC v. Ohio Security Ins. Co., 2018 WL 264088 (D. Neb. Jan. 2, 2018) (Connecticut and Nebraska law) was sued for allegedly abandoning a housecleaning franchise operation, beginning a new housecleaning business in the… Continue Reading →
In Sentinel Ins. Co. v. Beach for Dogs Corp., No. 17 C 1501, 2017 WL 6570079 (N.D. Ill. Dec. 21, 2017), the court held that the insurer owed no coverage to its insured, finding that an Intellectual Property Exclusion (“the… Continue Reading →
In West Side Salvage, Inc. v. RSUI Indemnity Company, 16-3928 (7th Cir. Dec. 18, 2017) (Illinois law), the Seventh Circuit held that a “damage-to-property” exclusion applied to preclude coverage for damages resulting from an explosion at a grain elevator caused… Continue Reading →