CGL Insurer: Panel’s Opinion Contradicts Pennsylvania Law As To Faulty Workmanship

( October 21, 2024, 9:40 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A commercial general liability insurer filed a petition for rehearing en banc challenging the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ per curiam opinion that vacated a lower federal court’s summary judgment ruling in its favor in a coverage dispute arising from a construction company insured’s allegedly defective renovation work, arguing that the panel’s opinion “contradicts Pennsylvania law that faulty workmanship is not an ‘occurrence,’ regardless if the damage at issue extends beyond the scope of a contractor’s work.”...