SDV Insights

The Florida Supreme Court recently denied review of an appellate decision interpreting a policy's "ensuing loss" exception to require a separate loss, entirely independent from the original excluded loss.

The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, recently held that an insurer had no duty to defend an additional insured due to an owner controlled insurance program ("OCIP") policy exclusion, despite the fact that the additional insured was not enrolled in the wrap program and did not perform any operations at the project.

In this morning's insurance edition of Law360.com, SDV partner Gregory Podolak was interviewed on a case (First Mercury Insurance Co. v. Shawmut Woodworking and Supply) that we had previously blogged about.

Following up last week's blog post: on Monday, August 29th the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a summary order affirming the decision in First Mercury Ins. Co. v. Shawmut Woodworking & Supply, Inc., No. 3:12-cv-01096 (D. Conn. Sept. 23, 2014)

There is a split among states as to how to interpret the "contractual privity" language in endorsements. Connecticut has not yet addressed the issue.

SDV's Gregory Podolak and Brian Rice of RailWorks co-authored a new article for Under Construction: The Newsletter of the ABA Forum on Construction Law...

As noted in our previous blog post, the NJ Supreme Court issued a pivotal ruling in the case of Cypress v. Adria.

As we announced in our previous blog post, yesterday's decision by the NJ Supreme Court was a significant win for policyholders.

A recent Supreme Court of Texas case highlights the need for contractors to require contractual indemnity when engaging suppliers.

In a unanimous decision issued earlier this morning, the New Jersey Supreme Court held that consequential damages caused by a subcontractor's faulty workmanship constitute "property damage" caused by an "occurrence" under the plain language of the CGL Policy.