( February 2, 2024, 11:23 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 1 denied a commercial general liability insurer’s petition for panel rehearing challenging its holding that the insurer has a duty to defend against an underlying bodily injury lawsuit arising from a construction site accident, standing by its ruling that an operations exclusion relieves a commercial auto insurer from defending their mutual insured....