Judge Awards Insurer $1M In Damages In Breach Of Contract Suit Against Agent

(August 1, 2023, 1:13 PM EDT) -- HARTFORD, Conn. — A federal judge in Connecticut partly granted an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit alleging that an insurance agent’s failure to include exclusions in an insurance policy resulted in it paying more than $1 million in legal fees and expenses to settle an underlying worker injury lawsuit, awarding the insurer $1 million and finding that the amount of underlying attorney fees it paid to achieve the settlement must be determined through trial....