(May 16, 2024, 2:50 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A general contractor petitioned the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for en banc rehearing, arguing that a recent opinion in which a panel found that the contractor was not owed a defense or indemnification because defective welding it performed at O’Hare International was not “property damage” under the terms of insurance policies cannot be squared away with “well settled Illinois law requiring insurers to defend policyholders unless the underlying facts pled preclude any possibility of coverage.”...