Panel: Insured’s Settlement Bars Subrogated Insurer’s Condo Defect Claims

Mealey's (October 24, 2016, 10:13 AM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — The entire-controversy doctrine precludes a subrogated insurer from asserting claims on behalf of its insured against an engineering firm for damage to a condominium because the claims were fully resolved in a prior lawsuit filed by the insured, a New Jersey appeals panel ruled Oct. 20 (Franklin Mutual Insurance Co. as subrogee of Sevastyan Ploshchansky v. Castle Restoration and Construction Inc. and Falcon Engineering Company LLC, No. A-5272-14T2, N.J. Super., App. Div.)....