Directors, Officers Policy Does Not Cover FDIC’s Claims, Majority Says, Reverses

(January 13, 2017, 1:54 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A majority of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 10 found that a directors and officers liability insurance policy unambiguously excludes from coverage the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s negligence, gross negligence and breach of fiduciary duty claims against a failed bank’s former directors and officers, reversing and remanding a lower court (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Security Pacific Bank v. BancInsure, Inc., No. 14-56132, 9th Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 452)....