( February 9, 2024, 11:29 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — Rejecting objections to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendations, a federal judge in Washington denied two insurers’ separate motions for partial summary judgment and granted in part a contractor’s motions for partial summary judgment, finding that the insurers owed the contractor a defense against allegations of faulty construction of a conveyance pipe for a sewer overflow control project. However, the judge found that the contractor was not owed a continuing defense from one of the insurers because the issue was mooted by the contractors’ dismissal from the underlying complaint....