The insurer of a Houston 7-Eleven lessee facing negligence claims after one person was fatally shot and another was injured on its property must also cover 7-Eleven corporate in the litigation, the convenience store giant said, though conceding the lessee store's policy didn't specifically include 7-Eleven as an additional insured.
A general contractor's insurer must defend it against claims that it abandoned the construction site of a custom-built home, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday, rejecting the insurer's reliance on two exclusions barring coverage for damage to "that particular part" of property the contractor worked and corresponding repairs.
Zurich has no duty to cover over $2.1 million in costs Travelers incurred while defending a construction company in a 2011 lawsuit over defects at San Diego's Hard Rock Hotel, a California federal court ruled, finding the underlying contract at issue didn't require Zurich's coverage beyond April 2008.
The Delaware Supreme Court wrestled with what exactly constitutes a "claim for damages" during oral arguments Wednesday in a dispute between Zurich Insurance Group units and herbicide manufacturer Syngenta, over whether an attorney's presuit letter claiming Syngenta's herbicide Paraquat caused his clients' Parkinson's disease qualifies.
Insurers for an industrial company told an Ohio federal court that the company that installed their insured's power supply units must foot the bill for an $18.7 million "catastrophic explosion" at the insured's Alabama manufacturing facility, arguing that the power supply company's botched inspection led to the explosion.