Tag:Duty to Defend

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Fashion Advertising Case Highlights Insurance Coverage Opportunities and Pitfalls
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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Insurers’ Arguments that Public Policy Bars Coverage for Hotel Sex-Trafficking Claims

Fashion Advertising Case Highlights Insurance Coverage Opportunities and Pitfalls

By: Lucas J. Tanglen and Anwesha Chatterjee

Businesses sometimes overlook valuable coverage that might be available under their existing insurance policies for trademark-infringement and other intellectual property-related lawsuits. A recent federal court ruling confirmed that commercial general liability (CGL) policies may provide coverage for such claims, while also calling attention to coverage exclusions that might present obstacles, depending on the allegations in a given case.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rejects Insurers’ Arguments that Public Policy Bars Coverage for Hotel Sex-Trafficking Claims

By: Donald W. Kiel, Erin D. Fleury, and Kyle C. McLester

A pro-policyholder trend addressed in one of our recent posts continued in July, when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected insurers’ efforts to invoke public policy to avoid their coverage obligations to hotel operators accused of benefiting from the use of their hotels by third-party criminals to commit criminal sex trafficking.

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