Majority: Settlement Agreement Did Not Trigger Excess Insurer’s Duty To Defend

Mealey's (April 27, 2017, 3:38 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A majority of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held April 26 that the widow of a man killed after falling bricks knocked him off a ladder failed to present a plausible argument that an underlying settlement agreement in a wrongful death lawsuit triggered an excess insurer’s duty to defend (Lucia Salvati, et al. v. The American Insurance Co., No. 16-1403, 1st Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 7366)....