Panel: Excess D&O Insurer Owes No Coverage For Costs Of Shareholder Class Action

( January 22, 2024, 3:05 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 19 affirmed a lower federal court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of an excess directors and officers liability insurer, finding that the insurer has no duty to pay a pharmaceutical drug manufacturer insured’s settlement and defense costs arising from an underlying shareholder class action alleging that it artificially inflated its stock when it misrepresented the results of a clinical drug study....