8th Circuit: Exclusion Bars CGL Coverage For Loss Caused By Defective Design

( February 7, 2025, 8:08 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 6 affirmed a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a commercial general liability insurer in an insured’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit seeking coverage for losses caused by a defectively designed hopper bin that catastrophically failed at a Mexico facility, agreeing with the lower court that the policy’s professional services exclusion barred coverage....