New York Panel: Insurer Owes Coverage For Indemnification Suit Over Worker Injury

(June 3, 2024, 11:13 AM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York appeals panel held that a subcontractor’s commercial general liability insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify a second subcontractor against an underlying lawsuit seeking contractual indemnification for a personal injury action, finding that the insurer failed to raise a triable issue of fact regarding whether the policy’s contractual liability exclusion applied to preclude coverage....