Commercial General Liability Policies, Summary Judgment, Policy Terms

Texas Court Could Limit Risk by Defining Exposure Trigger for Long-Tail Claims

Phelps Dunbar on 7/14/2025

The Northern District of Texas recently issued a pivotal decision for long-tail injury cases. It clarified that under Texas law, excess liability coverage for long-tail injury claims can center on an exposure trigger theory....more

Sixth Circuit Finds No E&O Coverage for GL Carrier Under E&O Policy for Underlying Motel Claim

Carlton Fields on 6/27/2025

In Columbia Casualty Co. v. State Auto Mutual Insurance Co., the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded, under Ohio law, that a demand letter to a general liability insurance carrier’s insured containing allegations of bad...more

Insurer Waived Right to Assert Policy Exclusion First Raised in Answer to Declaratory Judgment Complaint

Wiley Rein LLP on 10/5/2020

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, applying New York law, has concluded that an insurer waived the right to assert a policy exclusion as a coverage defense in a declaratory judgment action after...more

Look No Further Than the Insuring Clause: Ill-Gotten Gains Do Not Constitute Covered “Loss”

Carlton Fields on 11/19/2019

On August 26, 2019, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, applying Florida Law, held that ill-gotten gains do not constitute covered “loss” within the meaning of a D&O policy. In Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. v. Sabal...more

3 Lessons For Calif. Insureds From Late-Notice Rule Decision

Farella Braun + Martel LLP on 9/18/2019

In Pitzer College v. Indian Harbor Insurance Company, the California Supreme Court resolved two previously open questions in insurance law: (1) it concluded that the notice-prejudice rule is a fundamental public policy of...more

Clearing The Air: Tenth Circuit Strikes Down An Indoor Air Quality Exclusion, Citing Ambiguity

Carlton Fields on 11/19/2018

Ambiguity strikes again. While the heavily litigated pollution exclusion is well-known in the insurance world, its progeny—the indoor air exclusion—only recently has started making its way around the block. ...more

Fifth Circuit Holds Settlement Proceeds Received by General Contractor From Subcontractors Constitute “Other Insurance” Which...

Troutman Pepper Locke on 10/4/2018

Satterfield & Pontikes Constr., Inc. v. United States Fire Ins. Co., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 21488 (5th Cir. Aug. 2, 2018) - This case arises out of an excess insurance provider’s refusal to cover damages incurred by the...more

Commercial General Liability Policies › Summary Judgment › Policy Terms